Wawa Associates in Need Fund

Analysis

Wawa Associates in Need Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Wawa, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2008, 18 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, Wawa Associates in Need Fund reported income of $2.6m and spending of $2.1m, leaving 20% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.7m to $2.6m (+52%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 86%. Over the whole period it spent 54% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Wawa Associates in Need Fund sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Success in Recovery ($2.6m), National Chavez Center ($2.6m) and Lakeside Hospice Inc ($2.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 87% of the total. At year end it held assets of $11.3m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $11.3m.