Ascension Living Via Christi Village Ponca City

Analysis

Ascension Living Via Christi Village Ponca City is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Louis, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1946, 80 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a church under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Ascension Living Via Christi Village Ponca City reported income of $7.2m and spending of $10.4m, spending 145% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $7.6m to $7.2m (-4.4%), an average of -1.1% a year. Over the whole period it spent 121% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Ascension Living Via Christi Village Ponca City sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Spectrum Child and Family Services ($7.2m), Episcopal Seniorlife Communities ($7.2m) and Michigan Foundation for Agriculture ($7.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 98% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $3.1m. At year end it held assets of $4.0m against liabilities of $3.4m, net assets of $621k. It reported 123 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.