Respond Inc

Analysis

Respond Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Camden, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1970, 56 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a school under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Respond Inc reported income of $7.6m and spending of $7.0m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $5.7m to $7.6m (+32%), an average of +7.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 15%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Respond Inc sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile, and in the 95th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Last Mile Food Rescue ($7.6m), Chadtough Defeat Dipg Foundation ($7.6m) and Federal Hill House Association Inc ($7.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 53% and program service revenue 46% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $4.0m. At year end it held assets of $4.5m against liabilities of $2.5m, net assets of $2.0m. It reported 277 employees.