Plea

Analysis

Plea is a registered charity in United States, based in Homestead, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1968, 58 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, Plea reported income of $4.0m and spending of $2.8m, leaving 31% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $2.4m to $4.0m (+68%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Plea sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile, and in the 89th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include NRH Regional Rehab at Olney Inc ($4.0m), Pedi-Ortho Health Corporation ($4.0m) and Bay Area First Step Inc ($4.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 21% and program service revenue 79% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.6m. At year end it held assets of $3.9m against liabilities of $225k, net assets of $3.7m. It reported 49 employees.