Maps Charities

Analysis

Maps Charities is a registered charity in United States, based in Sherman Oaks, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2010, 16 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, Maps Charities reported income of $342k and spending of $462k, spending 135% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $173k to $342k (+98%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 103%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Maps Charities sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mother Divine Program-Maharishi Global Country of World Peace Inc ($342k), Kshatriyas Association of North America ($342k) and Hearts Knit Together ($342k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $48k. At year end it held assets of $310k against liabilities of $11k, net assets of $299k.