Mer Rouge Community Services Inc

Analysis

Mer Rouge Community Services Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Mer Rouge, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1966, 60 years ago. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending July 2023, Mer Rouge Community Services Inc reported income of $5.0m and spending of $4.6m, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2019 to July 2023, income fell from $5.4m to $5.0m (-7.1%), an average of -1.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2023, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Mer Rouge Community Services Inc sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Boy Scouts of America ($5.0m), Empac Industrial Resources Inc ($5.0m) and Tergar International ($5.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending July 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 90% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $2.3m. At year end it held assets of $3.4m against liabilities of $164k, net assets of $3.2m. It reported 155 employees.