Brittanys Hope

Analysis

Brittanys Hope is a registered charity in United States, based in Elizabethtown, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 December 2023, Brittanys Hope reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.3m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.8m to $1.5m (-20%), an average of -5.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Brittanys Hope sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Family Counseling Service ($1.5m), Feed Spokane ($1.5m) and National Council of Jewish Women St Louis Section ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 65% and program service revenue 3.2% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.1m against liabilities of $129k, net assets of $3.0m.