Encourage BC

Analysis

Encourage BC is a registered charity in United States, based in Battle Creek, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation (type i) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending March 2024, Encourage BC reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.8m, spending 148% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2020 to March 2024, income grew from $567k to $1.2m (+116%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 164%. Over the whole period it spent 127% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Encourage BC sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 81st percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Careercatchers Inc ($1.2m), Metro West Community Development Organization ($1.2m) and Dress for Success Cincinnati ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending March 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 70% and program service revenue 32% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $33k, net assets of $1.0m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.