Columbia County Self-Help

Analysis

Columbia County Self-Help is a registered charity in United States, based in St Helens, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general 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, Columbia County Self-Help reported income of $213k and spending of $137k, leaving 36% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $164k to $213k (+30%), an average of +6.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 74% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Columbia County Self-Help sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile, and in the 55th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bands Ministries ($213k), Vision Himpossible ($213k) and Camp Koinonia Inc ($213k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.2m against liabilities of $1.4m, net assets of $759k.