Garment Worker Center

Analysis

Garment Worker Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Los Angeles, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2006, 20 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, Garment Worker Center reported income of $2.5m and spending of $2.3m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $318k to $2.5m (+678%), an average of +67% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 142%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Garment Worker Center sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Stempower Inc ($2.5m), Tennessee Valley Agricultural & Industrial Fair ($2.5m) and Hope Hospice and Palliative Care Inc ($2.5m).

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 $130k (5.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.2m. At year end it held assets of $673k against liabilities of $123k, net assets of $550k. It reported 24 employees.