Womens Center-High Desert

Analysis

Womens Center-High Desert is a registered charity in United States, based in Ridgecrest, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1979, 47 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 June 2024, Womens Center-High Desert reported income of $2.1m and spending of $2.2m, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income fell from $2.3m to $2.1m (-11%), an average of -2.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income dropped by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Womens Center-High Desert sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Carpenters Place ($2.1m), Safenet Domestic Violence Safety Network Inc ($2.1m) and Child Education Center ($2.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from program service revenue 96% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.6m. At year end it held assets of $2.6m against liabilities of $447k, net assets of $2.1m. It reported 27 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.