Community Empowerment Council

Analysis

Community Empowerment Council is a registered charity in United States, based in White Hall, AR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2009, 17 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, Community Empowerment Council reported income of $850k and spending of $719k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.1m to $850k (-21%), an average of -5.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 71%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Community Empowerment Council sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 79th percentile within AR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include A Chosen Child Inc ($850k), YMCA of Callaway County ($850k) and Meals on Wheels for Fort Collins Colorado Inc ($850k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $10k (1.4% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $722k against liabilities of $732k, net assets of -$9,597. It reported 17 employees.