Packages From Home

Analysis

Packages From Home is a registered charity in United States, based in Glendale, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Packages From Home reported income of $2.2m and spending of $2.0m, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.4m to $2.2m (+59%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 83%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Packages From Home sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Greenfield Community College Foundation Inc ($2.2m), United Way of Sheboygan County Inc ($2.2m) and Raleigh-Cary Jewish Federation Inc ($2.2m).

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 $191k (9.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $84k. At year end it held assets of $982k against liabilities of $12k, net assets of $970k. It reported 7 employees.