Mesa Senior Meadows

Analysis

Mesa Senior Meadows is a registered charity in United States, based in Denver, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2012, 14 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Mesa Senior Meadows reported income of $350k and spending of $389k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $262k to $350k (+34%), an average of +7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Mesa Senior Meadows sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile, and in the 61st percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Enon-Toland Germantown Development Corporation ($350k), United Church Residences of Rome Georgia Inc ($350k) and Good Samaritan League Inc ($350k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 61% and program service revenue 37% of the total. At year end it held assets of $723k against liabilities of $69k, net assets of $654k.

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.