Heroic Imagination Project

Analysis

Heroic Imagination Project is a registered charity in United States, based in San Francisco, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2015, 11 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, Heroic Imagination Project reported income of $60k and spending of $74k, spending 122% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $72k to $60k (-16%), an average of -8.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 65%. Over the whole period it spent 128% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Heroic Imagination Project sits at the 21st percentile: it is larger than about 21% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 24th percentile, and in the 26th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hearthfire Keep Inc ($60k), DC Books to Prisons ($60k) and St Paul Coptic Development Foundation ($60k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 87% and program service revenue 13% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3,847 against liabilities of $0, net assets of $3,847.