East African Community Services

Analysis

East African Community Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Seattle, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2001, 25 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, East African Community Services reported income of $4.6m and spending of $4.3m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $684k to $4.6m (+570%), an average of +46% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 142%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, East African Community Services sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Exceptional Minds ($4.6m), Multi-Ethnic Collaborative of Community Agencies ($4.6m) and The Michael Lisnow Respite Center Inc ($4.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.9m. At year end it held assets of $2.2m against liabilities of $174k, net assets of $2.0m. It reported 54 employees.