Newark Emergency Service for Families

Analysis

Newark Emergency Service for Families is a registered charity in United States, based in Newark, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1980, 46 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, Newark Emergency Service for Families reported income of $1.7m and spending of $2.1m, spending 124% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.3m to $1.7m (+25%), an average of +5.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Newark Emergency Service for Families sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sunset Home of Utica ($1.7m), N B C-U S a of New York One Housing Development Fund Corporation ($1.7m) and Pops Foundation ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $146k (7.1% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $671k. At year end it held assets of $2.6m against liabilities of $1.0m, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 22 employees.