Otterbein Green Hills Foundation

Analysis

Otterbein Green Hills Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in West Liberty, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation (type ii) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Otterbein Green Hills Foundation reported income of $3.6m and spending of $5.0m, spending 138% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $4.1m to $3.6m (-12%), an average of -3.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 21%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Otterbein Green Hills Foundation sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Start Small Think Big Inc ($3.6m), Center for Independent Living for Western Wisconsin Inc ($3.6m) and Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless Inc ($3.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 7.1% and program service revenue 90% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.9m. At year end it held assets of $4.4m against liabilities of $1.5m, net assets of $2.9m. It reported 39 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.