Lower Columbia Community Action Council Incorporated

Analysis

Lower Columbia Community Action Council Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Longview, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1967, 59 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 December 2023, Lower Columbia Community Action Council Incorporated reported income of $12.1m and spending of $11.8m, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $10.3m to $12.1m (+17%), an average of +4.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Lower Columbia Community Action Council Incorporated sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Institute for Human Resources & Services ($12.1m), Arkansas Baptist Childrens Homes and Family Ministries ($12.1m) and Southern Tier Environments for Living Inc ($12.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 85% and program service revenue 14% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $385k (3.3% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.4m. At year end it held assets of $11.4m against liabilities of $959k, net assets of $10.4m. It reported 142 employees.