West Indies Self-Help Inc

Analysis

West Indies Self-Help Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Allendale, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1971, 55 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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, West Indies Self-Help Inc reported income of $351k and spending of $335k, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $278k to $351k (+26%), an average of +6.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, West Indies Self-Help Inc sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile, and in the 64th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Latin American and Caribbean Network for Democracy Inc ($351k), Friends of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees Inc ($351k) and Hope Project-Liberia ($351k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 70% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $102k. At year end it held assets of $654k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $654k.