Safe Passage

Analysis

Safe Passage is a registered charity in United States, based in Portland, ME. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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 December 2023, Safe Passage reported income of $2.2m and spending of $2.6m, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from June 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.8m to $2.2m (+24%), an average of +4.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 217%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Safe Passage sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within ME. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Junior Achievement of Southwest New England ($2.2m), For the Nations Refugee Outreach ($2.2m) and Southeast Asia Resource Action Center ($2.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $132k (5.1% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $365k. At year end it held assets of $4.3m against liabilities of $115k, net assets of $4.1m. It reported 8 employees.