Amigos de Las Americas

Analysis

Amigos de Las Americas is a registered charity in United States, based in Bellaire, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1980, 46 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 August 2023, Amigos de Las Americas reported income of $210k and spending of $180k, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income fell from $309k to $210k (-32%), an average of -9.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 340%. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Amigos de Las Americas sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile, and in the 59th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Keren Hatzadik - in Memory of Rabbiaryeh Levin of Blessed Memory ($209k), Vietnamese American Nongovernmental Organization Network ($210k) and Care Africa ($209k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 42% and program service revenue 56% of the total. At year end it held assets of $155k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $155k.