Oorah Inc

Analysis

Oorah Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Lakewood, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2001, 25 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, Oorah Inc reported income of $48.9m and spending of $51.7m, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $32.6m to $48.9m (+50%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 60%. Over the whole period it spent 61% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Oorah Inc sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 99% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile, and in the 99th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Otterbein Lebanon ($48.8m), Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin ($49.0m) and Carolina Meadows Inc ($48.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 91% and program service revenue 3.8% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $482k (0.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $8.6m. At year end it held assets of $199.4m against liabilities of $1.7m, net assets of $197.7m. It reported 325 employees.