Lao Community Service Center

Analysis

Lao Community Service Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Renton, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Lao Community Service Center reported income of $188k and spending of $196k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $105k to $188k (+80%), an average of +80% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 80%. Over the whole period it spent 117% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Lao Community Service Center sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 52nd percentile, and in the 49th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sisters by Choice Inc ($188k), Community Action Partnership of NJ Inc ($188k) and Fringe Thrift Closet ($188k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $87k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $87k.