Phoenix Community Alliance Inc

Analysis

Phoenix Community Alliance Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Phoenix, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1985, 41 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, Phoenix Community Alliance Inc reported income of $336k and spending of $339k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $398k to $336k (-16%), an average of -4.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 15%. Over the whole period it spent 121% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Phoenix Community Alliance Inc sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile, and in the 61st percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Buckeye Lake 2030 Corporation ($336k), Community Frontline of Fort Worth Inc ($336k) and Main Street Martinez Inc ($335k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 78% and program service revenue 7.5% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $166k. It paid $269 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $252k against liabilities of $167k, net assets of $85k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.