Mariposa Center for Safety

Analysis

Mariposa Center for Safety is a registered charity in United States, based in Pueblo, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1960, 66 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 June 2023, Mariposa Center for Safety reported income of $1.9m and spending of $2.2m, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $522k to $1.9m (+262%), an average of +38% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 70%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Mariposa Center for Safety sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Share Your Care Inc ($1.9m), Family YMCA of Bartlesville Association ($1.9m) and King Street Center Inc ($1.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% and program service revenue 1.5% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $77k (3.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.0m. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $354k, net assets of $741k. It reported 45 employees.