Our Town St Helena

Analysis

Our Town St Helena is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Helena, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2013, 13 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, Our Town St Helena reported income of $640k and spending of $341k, leaving 47% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $174k to $640k (+267%), an average of +54% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 499%. Over the whole period it spent 51% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Our Town St Helena 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 75th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Permian Basin Mission Center ($640k), Oconto Area Non-Profit Child Care Inc ($640k) and Ramapough Culture and Land Foundation Inc ($640k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 74% of the total. It paid $23k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $5.9m against liabilities of $2.5m, net assets of $3.4m.