Hand Up Foundation

Analysis

Hand Up Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Milton, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2005, 21 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, Hand Up Foundation reported income of $565k and spending of $618k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $432k to $565k (+31%), an average of +6.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 103%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Hand Up Foundation sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 70th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Operation Breakthrough Foundation ($565k), Chabad Lubavitch Torah Educational Services ($565k) and Thrifty Nickel Inc ($565k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 7.5% and program service revenue 72% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $54k (8.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $199k. At year end it held assets of $926k against liabilities of $229k, net assets of $697k. It reported 18 employees.