Harris Center Foundation

Analysis

Harris Center Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2006, 20 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 August 2023, Harris Center Foundation reported income of $328k and spending of $278k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income grew from $32k to $328k (+921%), an average of +79% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 470%. Over the whole period it spent 121% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Harris Center Foundation sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile, and in the 68th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Help Right Here ($328k), Economic Opportunity Center Inc ($328k) and Meals on Wheels of Coweta Inc ($328k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. At year end it held assets of $686k against liabilities of $20k, net assets of $666k.