Meeting Essential Needs with Dignity Inc

Analysis

Meeting Essential Needs with Dignity Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Maplewood, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 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, Meeting Essential Needs with Dignity Inc reported income of $2.2m and spending of $2.3m, spending 105% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $407k to $2.2m (+444%), an average of +53% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 303%. Over the whole period it spent 81% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Meeting Essential Needs with Dignity Inc sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gothenburg Early Childhood Learning Coalition ($2.2m), Sharefest Community Development Inc ($2.2m) and Scotts Social Services ($2.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $81k (3.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $418k. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $156k, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 13 employees.