Sparta Community Works

Analysis

Sparta Community Works is a registered charity in United States, based in Sparta, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2020, 6 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, Sparta Community Works reported income of $92k and spending of $78k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $195k to $92k (-53%), an average of -53% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Sparta Community Works sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 35th percentile, and in the 34th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Thrive Sequatchie ($92k), Frank Lloyd Wrights Burnham Block Inc ($92k) and Xerocraft ($92k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 35% of the total. At year end it held assets of $74k against liabilities of $39k, net assets of $35k.