Shelter America Group

Analysis

Shelter America Group is a registered charity in United States, based in Vashon, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1994, 32 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, Shelter America Group reported income of $2.1m and spending of $2.0m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.5m to $2.1m (+44%), an average of +9.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 188%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Shelter America Group sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Habitat for Humanity International ($2.1m), Huntington Housing Inc ($2.1m) and Cold Climate Housing Research Center ($2.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 91% of the total. At year end it held assets of $12.1m against liabilities of $6.0m, net assets of $6.1m. It reported 2 employees.