Mend-Meet Each Need with Dignity

Analysis

Mend-Meet Each Need with Dignity is a registered charity in United States, based in Pacoima, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 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, Mend-Meet Each Need with Dignity reported income of $13.3m and spending of $12.3m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from June 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $10.6m to $13.3m (+25%), an average of +4.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 108%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Mend-Meet Each Need with Dignity sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Plummer Youth Promise Inc ($13.3m), Community Action of South Mississippi ($13.3m) and Alliance for Early Success ($13.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% and program service revenue 3.7% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $613k (5.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.1m. At year end it held assets of $12.2m against liabilities of $362k, net assets of $11.8m. It reported 72 employees.