The Center Incorporated

Analysis

The Center Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Baton Rouge, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1984, 42 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 June 2023, The Center Incorporated reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.2m, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.2m (+2.8%), an average of +0.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income dropped by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Center Incorporated sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 80th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cookson Hills Family Ministries of Florida Inc ($1.2m), Shining Hope Farms ($1.2m) and Personal Development Center Inc ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $211k (17% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $412k. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $577k, net assets of $825k. It reported 22 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.