Pennsylvania Family Institute

Analysis

Pennsylvania Family Institute is a registered charity in United States, based in Harrisburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 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, Pennsylvania Family Institute reported income of $2.5m and spending of $2.7m, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.1m to $2.5m (+19%), an average of +4.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Pennsylvania Family Institute sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Covering House ($2.5m), Arc of Arizona Inc ($2.5m) and Marion County Senior Citizens Center Inc ($2.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $260k (9.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.3m. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $98k, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 22 employees.