Brethren Services Inc

Analysis

Brethren Services Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Lititz, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1984, 42 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Brethren Services Inc reported income of $616k and spending of $654k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $593k to $616k (+3.9%), an average of +1.0% a year. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Brethren Services Inc sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 71st percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Salvation Army Glendale Residences Inc ($616k), Oakland Elizabeth House ($616k) and Housing Education and Economic Development Inc ($616k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $70k. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $3.1m, net assets of -$1.8m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.