Casas Por Cristo

Analysis

Casas Por Cristo is a registered charity in United States, based in El Paso, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover housing and shelter, which this site groups under housing and shelter. 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 2023, Casas Por Cristo reported income of $7.0m and spending of $6.3m, spending 89% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $5.3m to $7.0m (+33%), an average of +9.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Casas Por Cristo 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 95th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan ($7.0m), Community Housing Corporation of America Inc ($7.1m) and Ebenezer Lakes Assisted Living ($7.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 38% and program service revenue 52% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $470k (7.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.1m. At year end it held assets of $5.9m against liabilities of $806k, net assets of $5.1m.