Porters Call

Analysis

Porters Call is a registered charity in United States, based in Franklin, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2002, 24 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 December 2023, Porters Call reported income of $949k and spending of $1.1m, spending 119% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $596k to $949k (+59%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 183%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Porters Call sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile, and in the 80th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Miami County Agricultural Society Inc ($949k), Wesley Glen Health Services Corporation ($949k) and Petes Garden ($949k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 106% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $454k (40% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $250k. At year end it held assets of $2.8m against liabilities of $1.0m, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 10 employees.