Community Aid Relief Effort

Analysis

Community Aid Relief Effort is a registered charity in United States, based in Kinzers, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2022, 4 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public safety, disaster preparedness and relief, which this site groups under armed forces, emergency and public safety. 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, Community Aid Relief Effort reported income of $198k and spending of $337k, spending 170% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $213k to $198k (-7.2%), an average of -2.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 45%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 9,128 United States charities whose main cause is armed forces, emergency and public safety and that reported income, Community Aid Relief Effort sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile, and in the 51st percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mine Run Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($198k), Crooks Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($198k) and Red Wing Fire Department Relief Association ($198k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% of the total. At year end it held assets of $220k against liabilities of $78k, net assets of $142k.