Friends in Sonoma Helping

Analysis

Friends in Sonoma Helping is a registered charity in United States, based in Sonoma, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1975, 51 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, Friends in Sonoma Helping reported income of $664k and spending of $506k, leaving 24% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $323k to $664k (+106%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 330%. Over the whole period it spent 74% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Friends in Sonoma Helping sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 76th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hogar de Ninos El Ave Maria ($664k), Douglas County Car Care Program ($664k) and Food for Neighbors ($664k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 84% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.9m against liabilities of $6,084, net assets of $2.8m.