Zion Orphanage Inc

Analysis

Zion Orphanage Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Brooklyn, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1961, 65 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 (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, Zion Orphanage Inc reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.2m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $387k to $1.2m (+199%), an average of +32% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 73%. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Zion Orphanage Inc sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 77th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fundy Community Foundation ($1.2m), Little Sisters Fund Inc ($1.2m) and American Friends of Yeshivat Tifrach ($1.2m).

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 $71k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $71k.

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.