Rural Housing Preservation Foundation

Analysis

Rural Housing Preservation Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Irvine, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover housing and shelter, which this site groups under housing and shelter. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Rural Housing Preservation Foundation reported income of $298k and spending of $12k, leaving 96% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $950k to $298k (-69%), an average of -25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 147%. Over the whole period it spent 4.7% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Rural Housing Preservation Foundation sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 64th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Isabella County Nonprofit Housing Corporation ($298k), Cdla Inc ($299k) and Cheyenne Trails Corporation ($298k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 96% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $3,000 (25% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.1m.