Communities Together Inc

Analysis

Communities Together Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Bethesda, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2017, 9 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, Communities Together Inc reported income of $1.7m and spending of $1.0m, leaving 41% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $455k to $1.7m (+270%), an average of +39% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 77%. Over the whole period it spent 75% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Communities Together Inc sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hand Up Ministries ($1.7m), The Foundation of Laguna Woods Village ($1.7m) and Greater Enrichment Program Inc ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 44% and program service revenue 56% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $486k. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $68k, net assets of $1.3m. It reported 13 employees.