South Sound Outreach Services

Analysis

South Sound Outreach Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Tacoma, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1997, 29 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 September 2023, South Sound Outreach Services reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.6m, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income fell from $1.9m to $1.4m (-27%), an average of -7.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2020, when income dropped by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, South Sound Outreach Services sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Clothes Closet Inc ($1.4m), Epek International Inc ($1.4m) and Orion House Inc ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $110k (7.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $747k. At year end it held assets of $218k against liabilities of $268k, net assets of -$50k. It reported 22 employees.