Rockbridge Area Relief Association Incorporated

Analysis

Rockbridge Area Relief Association Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Lexington, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1976, 50 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, Rockbridge Area Relief Association Incorporated reported income of $759k and spending of $689k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $359k to $759k (+111%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 151%. Over the whole period it spent 66% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Rockbridge Area Relief Association Incorporated sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 76th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Operation Bootstrap Inc ($759k), Foundations for Hope Inc ($759k) and Family Promise of Greater Washington County ($759k).

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 $52k (7.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $114k. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $11k, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 9 employees.