City Help Inc

Analysis

City Help Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Los Angeles, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. 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, City Help Inc reported income of $608k and spending of $621k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $246k to $608k (+147%), an average of +25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 148%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, City Help Inc 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 73rd percentile, and in the 74th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bedford Joint Municipal Authority ($608k), Black Pages International ($609k) and Foundry Community Foundation ($608k).

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 $35.0m against liabilities of $34.9m, net assets of $31k.

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.