Gulf Coast Safety Council

Analysis

Gulf Coast Safety Council is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Rose, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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 December 2022, Gulf Coast Safety Council reported income of $3.6m and spending of $3.3m, spending 92% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income grew from $3.5m to $3.6m (+1.7%), an average of +0.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 15%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Gulf Coast Safety Council sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include School Board Partners ($3.6m), Fact Forward ($3.6m) and Council Bluffs Schools Foundation Inc ($3.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 12% and program service revenue 87% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $262k (8.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.0m. At year end it held assets of $8.4m against liabilities of $208k, net assets of $8.2m. It reported 35 employees.