Chosen

Analysis

Chosen is a registered charity in United States, based in Erie, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1987, 39 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, Chosen reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.6m, spending 124% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $1.3m (+4.6%), an average of +1.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 138%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Chosen sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 80th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Human Rights Activists ($1.3m), Bretton Woods Committee ($1.3m) and Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 19% and program service revenue 81% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $404k. At year end it held assets of $906k against liabilities of $49k, net assets of $857k. It reported 14 employees.