Strengthen Our Sisters Inc

Analysis

Strengthen Our Sisters Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Hewitt, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1990, 36 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, Strengthen Our Sisters Inc reported income of $448k and spending of $508k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $383k to $448k (+17%), an average of +3.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2019, when income rose by 55%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Strengthen Our Sisters Inc sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 74th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Salem Family Resources-Success by 6 ($448k), Rain for the Sahel and Sahara Inc ($448k) and Arizona Knights of Columbus Charity Inc ($448k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 44% and program service revenue 46% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $441k, net assets of $632k.