Sister Carmen Community Center Inc

Analysis

Sister Carmen Community Center Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Lafayette, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1981, 45 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 June 2023, Sister Carmen Community Center Inc reported income of $6.5m and spending of $7.2m, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $4.5m to $6.5m (+42%), an average of +9.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Sister Carmen Community Center Inc sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 94th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hubbard House Inc ($6.5m), Rhode Island Rescue Ministries ($6.5m) and Agricultural Utilization Research Institute ($6.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $147k (2.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.5m. At year end it held assets of $3.9m against liabilities of $172k, net assets of $3.8m. It reported 50 employees.