Serve Your City

Analysis

Serve Your City is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Serve Your City reported income of $591k and spending of $552k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $607k to $591k (-2.7%), an average of -0.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 81% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Serve Your City 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 73rd percentile, and in the 46th percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include American Friends of Shimon Hatzadik ($591k), United Way of the Adirondack Region Inc ($592k) and Kids Connect Charitable Fund ($591k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 111% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $135k (24% of expenses). It paid $75k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $536k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $536k. It reported 1 employees.