Bob Perks Cancer Assistance Fund

Analysis

Bob Perks Cancer Assistance Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in State College, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Bob Perks Cancer Assistance Fund reported income of $530k and spending of $474k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $327k to $530k (+62%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Bob Perks Cancer Assistance 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 71st percentile, and in the 69th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Art Spark Texas ($530k), Eb Charitable Foundation Inc ($530k) and Bargain Store ($530k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 70% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $117k. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $5,484, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 4 employees.