Help the Fight

Analysis

Help the Fight is a registered charity in United States, based in Mountville, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2012, 14 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, Help the Fight reported income of $204k and spending of $147k, leaving 28% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $155k to $204k (+32%), an average of +7.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Help the Fight sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile, and in the 52nd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Crook County Family Violence and Sexual Assault Services ($204k), Love Not Lost Inc ($204k) and Croton-Cortlandt Food Pantry ($204k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 32% of the total. At year end it held assets of $225k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $225k.