Capital Appeals Project

Analysis

Capital Appeals Project is a registered charity in United States, based in New Orleans, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. 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, Capital Appeals Project reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.3m, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $1.2m (+1.8%), an average of +0.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income rose by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Capital Appeals Project sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% 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 Parents for Peace ($1.2m), Public Defender Corporation for the Fifteenth Circuit of West Virginia ($1.2m) and One Community Action ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% and program service revenue 0.7% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $110k (8.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $605k. At year end it held assets of $144k against liabilities of $32k, net assets of $112k. It reported 18 employees.