Assistance League of Arcadia

Analysis

Assistance League of Arcadia is a registered charity in United States, based in Arcadia, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1955, 71 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending May 2024, Assistance League of Arcadia reported income of $217k and spending of $276k, spending 127% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2020 to May 2024, income grew from $213k to $217k (+1.9%), an average of +0.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2022, when income rose by 98%. Over the whole period it spent 125% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Assistance League of Arcadia sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile, and in the 58th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Thomas P and Sondra D Sheehan Charitable Foundation ($216k), WMCF Support TR ($217k) and Riverhead Business Improvement District Management Assoc Inc ($216k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending May 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 19% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $22k, net assets of $1.1m.