Pennsylvania Relief Sale

Analysis

Pennsylvania Relief Sale is a registered charity in United States, based in Frazer, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religion-related, which this site groups under religion. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2024, Pennsylvania Relief Sale reported income of $475k and spending of $484k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income grew from $232k to $475k (+105%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 60%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 31,138 United States charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Pennsylvania Relief Sale 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 69th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kairos Benevolence Fund ($475k), Victory Baptist Church ($475k) and Berit Shalom Inc ($475k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 36% and program service revenue 59% of the total. At year end it held assets of $23k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $23k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.