The Polk County Mission Center

Analysis

The Polk County Mission Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Livingston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, The Polk County Mission Center reported income of $264k and spending of $322k, spending 122% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $252k to $264k (+4.6%), an average of +1.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Polk County Mission Center sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Wiregrass 2-1-1 ($264k), Center for Positive Aging in Lower Merion ($264k) and Gateway Home - Comfort Care Inc ($264k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $549k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $549k.