The Whatcom Dispute Resolution Center

Analysis

The Whatcom Dispute Resolution Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Bellingham, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover unknown, which this site groups under other charitable purposes. 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, The Whatcom Dispute Resolution Center reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.4m, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $786k to $1.5m (+96%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, The Whatcom Dispute Resolution Center sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hacd Corp ($1.5m), Sahag-Mesrob Armenian Christian School ($1.5m) and Jewish Federation of Reading Pennsylvania Inc ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 85% and program service revenue 9.2% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $881k. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $618k, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 28 employees.