Utility Emergency Services Fund

Analysis

Utility Emergency Services Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Philadelphia, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1983, 43 years ago. Its declared purposes cover housing and shelter, which this site groups under housing and shelter. 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 June 2023, Utility Emergency Services Fund reported income of $11.5m and spending of $12.7m, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $4.5m to $11.5m (+157%), an average of +27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 223%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Utility Emergency Services Fund sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 94th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Rebuilders ($11.5m), Neighborhood Finance Corporation ($11.6m) and LA Cienega Lomod Inc ($11.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.9m. At year end it held assets of $4.1m against liabilities of $4.5m, net assets of -$396k. It reported 59 employees.