The Interfaith Community Dire Emergency Fund

Analysis

The Interfaith Community Dire Emergency Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Providence, RI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1984, 42 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 June 2023, The Interfaith Community Dire Emergency Fund reported income of $137k and spending of $137k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2023, income fell from $142k to $137k (-3.6%), an average of -1.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 105%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Interfaith Community Dire Emergency Fund sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 45th percentile, and in the 41st percentile within RI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cara Estates Inc ($137k), Maryland Foster Parent Association Inc ($137k) and Childrens Center of Cos Cob Inc ($137k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $174k against liabilities of $120k, net assets of $54k.