Bikur Cholim of Crown Heights

Analysis

Bikur Cholim of Crown Heights is a registered charity in United States, based in Brooklyn, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1977, 49 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, Bikur Cholim of Crown Heights reported income of $758k and spending of $744k, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $322k to $758k (+135%), an average of +24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 78%. Over the whole period it spent 78% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Bikur Cholim of Crown Heights sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include YWCA Southwestern Illinois ($758k), Dream Center of Jackson ($758k) and Alex House Project Inc ($758k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $323k, net assets of $735k.