Community Housing Improvement Systems and Planning Assn Inc

Analysis

Community Housing Improvement Systems and Planning Assn Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Salinas, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1981, 45 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 (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, Community Housing Improvement Systems and Planning Assn Inc reported income of $9.7m and spending of $6.2m, leaving 36% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $6.3m to $9.7m (+54%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income rose by 136%. Over the whole period it spent 64% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Community Housing Improvement Systems and Planning Assn Inc sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile, and in the 95th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Village Enterprises ($9.7m), Western Reserve Revitalization & Management Co ($9.7m) and Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation ($9.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 29% and program service revenue 69% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $253k (4.1% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.2m. At year end it held assets of $57.1m against liabilities of $22.4m, net assets of $34.8m. It reported 25 employees.