Southeast Texas Emergency Relief Fund

Analysis

Southeast Texas Emergency Relief Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Beaumont, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 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 June 2022, Southeast Texas Emergency Relief Fund reported income of $301k and spending of $720k, spending 239% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2022, income fell from $717k to $301k (-58%), an average of -35% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income dropped by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 204% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Southeast Texas Emergency Relief Fund sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 66th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Walter R Earle Memorial Foundation Inc ($301k), People Living in Recovery Inc ($301k) and Fleet Landing Endowment Fund Inc ($300k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 79% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $5,417 (0.8% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $69k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $69k. It reported 1 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.