Community Directions Inc

Analysis

Community Directions Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Opelousas, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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 December 2023, Community Directions Inc reported income of $266k and spending of $399k, spending 150% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $274k to $266k (-2.8%), an average of -0.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 138% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Community Directions Inc sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 58th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Myelin Repair Foundation Inc ($266k), Friends of Reach Outs Hiv-Aids Africa Initiative Inc ($266k) and Cut Bank Golf & Country Club ($266k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.5% and program service revenue 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $45k. At year end it held assets of $4.2m against liabilities of $3.7m, net assets of $541k.

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.