Ess Community Projects Inc

Analysis

Ess Community Projects Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Brooklyn, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. 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, Ess Community Projects Inc reported income of $220k and spending of $182k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $435k to $220k (-49%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 123%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Ess Community Projects Inc sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile, and in the 53rd percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lamb Center for Arts and Healing ($220k), Central Wisconsin Cultural Center Inc ($220k) and Kacyra Family Foundation ($220k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 6.0% and program service revenue 94% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $50k (27% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $62k. At year end it held assets of $22k against liabilities of $25k, net assets of -$2,811. It reported 12 employees.