United for Respect Education Fund

Analysis

United for Respect Education Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Sacramento, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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, United for Respect Education Fund reported income of $6.5m and spending of $8.2m, spending 127% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $2.9m to $6.5m (+121%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2019, when income rose by 161%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, United for Respect Education Fund sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 94th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Southern Education Foundation Inc ($6.5m), Loneman School Corporation ($6.5m) and Green Hedges School Inc ($6.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $839k (10% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $3.4m. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $521k, net assets of $1.3m. It reported 52 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.