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Creative Action Inc

RegisteredEIN 82-0868244Miami, FLPoverty relief
Income$4.3m2023-12
Spending$4.3msame year
Spent / received100%4-year average
Size in its cause89th pctPoverty relief
Exempt since2017Publicly supported organisat
Employees307latest return

Analysis

Creative Action Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Miami, FL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 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, Creative Action Inc reported income of $4.3m and spending of $4.3m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $2.2m to $4.3m (+99%), an average of +26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 63%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Creative Action Inc sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within FL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Housing Options Integrated Comm Emp & Soc Serv Inc ($4.3m), Port Angeles Food Bank ($4.3m) and Home Aides of Central New York Inc ($4.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $462k (11% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $469k against liabilities of $476k, net assets of -$7,002. It reported 307 employees.

Income and spending

$0$1.1m$2.1m$3.2m$4.3m2020 Income: $2,157,8212020 Spending: $2,215,21320202021 Income: $3,512,8932021 Spending: $3,518,53820212022 Income: $3,827,0622022 Spending: $3,824,71720222023 Income: $4,289,0452023 Spending: $4,256,3812023
IncomeSpending

Where the income comes from

  • Program services 100%

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