Middle Earth

Analysis

Middle Earth is a registered charity in United States, based in Bridgewater, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1974, 52 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, Middle Earth reported income of $1.9m and spending of $1.8m, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.4m to $1.9m (+37%), an average of +8.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Middle Earth sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Women and Childrens Horizons Inc ($1.9m), Charity Cultural Services Center ($1.9m) and Seraphic Fire Inc ($1.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% and program service revenue 1.2% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.2m. At year end it held assets of $542k against liabilities of $78k, net assets of $465k. It reported 142 employees.