Assistance League of Newport-Mesa

Analysis

Assistance League of Newport-Mesa is a registered charity in United States, based in Costa Mesa, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1952, 74 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending May 2023, Assistance League of Newport-Mesa reported income of $686k and spending of $887k, spending 129% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from May 2020 to May 2023, income grew from $566k to $686k (+21%), an average of +6.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2022, when income rose by 70%. 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, Assistance League of Newport-Mesa sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 76th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Our Home of Hope Inc ($686k), Health in the Hood Inc ($686k) and Logan County Good Samaritan Incorporated ($686k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending May 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 56% and program service revenue 25% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $288k. At year end it held assets of $3.9m against liabilities of $139k, net assets of $3.8m. It reported 17 employees.