Coastal Community Action Program

Analysis

Coastal Community Action Program is a registered charity in United States, based in Aberdeen, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 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, Coastal Community Action Program reported income of $25.5m and spending of $24.6m, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $13.2m to $25.5m (+94%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Coastal Community Action Program sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile, and in the 98th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Salem Community Corp ($25.5m), Youth and Family Alternatives Inc ($25.5m) and Bair Foundation ($25.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% and program service revenue 2.2% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $430k (1.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $8.8m. At year end it held assets of $21.0m against liabilities of $5.1m, net assets of $16.0m. It reported 435 employees.