Merrill Community Homeless Center Inc

Analysis

Merrill Community Homeless Center Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Merrill, WI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover housing and shelter, which this site groups under housing and shelter. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Merrill Community Homeless Center Inc reported income of $227k and spending of $173k, leaving 24% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $187k to $227k (+21%), an average of +6.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 78% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Merrill Community Homeless Center Inc sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile, and in the 56th percentile within WI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fairmont Place Housing Development Fund Corporation ($227k), Lutheran Housing of LA Crosse Inc ($227k) and Independent Living Community Services Inc ($227k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $135k. At year end it held assets of $186k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $186k. It reported 15 employees.