Help Aid Africa

Analysis

Help Aid Africa is a registered charity in United States, based in Walnut Creek, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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, Help Aid Africa reported income of $392k and spending of $392k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.9m to $392k (-79%), an average of -40% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 87%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Help Aid Africa sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hong Kong Schools Alumni Federation Scholarship Foundation ($392k), Iman Jasim Foundation ($392k) and Team Tobati Inc ($392k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $9,000. At year end it held assets of $208k against liabilities of $349, net assets of $208k.