Lawrence Community Shelter Inc

Analysis

Lawrence Community Shelter Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Lawrence, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1998, 28 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 (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, Lawrence Community Shelter Inc reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.6m, spending 121% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.3m to $1.4m (+3.4%), an average of +0.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Lawrence Community Shelter Inc sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Revitalize T-Town Inc ($1.4m), Phil C Bradley Housing Partnership Consorcio de Vivienda Phil C Bradl ($1.4m) and Villa Santa Maria Inc ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $987k. At year end it held assets of $3.0m against liabilities of $369k, net assets of $2.7m. It reported 80 employees.