Cha Low Income Services Inc

Analysis

Cha Low Income Services Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbia, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2003, 23 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, Cha Low Income Services Inc reported income of $1.0m and spending of $1.0m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income fell from $1.2m to $1.0m (-20%), an average of -4.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Cha Low Income Services Inc sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Montgomery County Family Young Mens Christian Association Inc ($1.0m), Oilfield Helping Hands Inc ($1.0m) and Ambassador Services International ($1.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.5% and program service revenue 98% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $533k. At year end it held assets of $748k against liabilities of $931k, net assets of -$183k.