New Hampshire Stories Inc

Analysis

New Hampshire Stories Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Portsmouth, NH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1999, 27 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, New Hampshire Stories Inc reported income of $196k and spending of $296k, spending 151% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $341k to $196k (-43%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 143%. Over the whole period it spent 149% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, New Hampshire Stories Inc sits at the 48th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile, and in the 55th percentile within NH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Edible Prairie Project ($196k), Princewill & Shantel Odidi Community Volunteers Foundation in ($196k) and Synchronicity Recovery Foundation Ltd ($196k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 23% and program service revenue 8.2% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $115k. At year end it held assets of $328k against liabilities of $504k, net assets of -$176k. It reported 5 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.