Communities Resist

Analysis

Communities Resist is a registered charity in United States, based in Brooklyn, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2020, 6 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 June 2023, Communities Resist reported income of $3.8m and spending of $3.3m, spending 87% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2023, income grew from $2.3m to $3.8m (+62%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 60%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Communities Resist sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Echo Housing Corporation ($3.8m), Headlands Foundation ($3.8m) and Habitat for Humanity International Inc ($3.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% and program service revenue 1.7% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $305k (9.3% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.4m. At year end it held assets of $3.4m against liabilities of $2.1m, net assets of $1.3m. It reported 29 employees.