Fort Smith Childrens Emergency Shelter

Analysis

Fort Smith Childrens Emergency Shelter is a registered charity in United States, based in Fort Smith, AR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Fort Smith Childrens Emergency Shelter reported income of $611k and spending of $638k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2023, income fell from $789k to $611k (-23%), an average of -8.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income dropped by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Fort Smith Childrens Emergency Shelter sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 75th percentile within AR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Endowment for Federation ($611k), Scotts Run Settlement House Inc ($611k) and Granite Ridge ($611k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 20% and program service revenue 76% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $344k. At year end it held assets of $607k against liabilities of $88k, net assets of $519k. It reported 29 employees.