Center on Rural Innovation Inc

Analysis

Center on Rural Innovation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Hartland, VT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2018, 8 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 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, Center on Rural Innovation Inc reported income of $6.0m and spending of $5.2m, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.8m to $6.0m (+231%), an average of +35% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 107%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Center on Rural Innovation Inc sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within VT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Neighborhood Housing Services of Baltimore Inc ($6.0m), Association for Community Organization and Resource Developm ($6.0m) and Workforce Innovations ($6.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% and program service revenue 6.5% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $892k. At year end it held assets of $3.5m against liabilities of $1.6m, net assets of $1.9m. It reported 17 employees.