Weeks Educational and Social Advocacy Project

Analysis

Weeks Educational and Social Advocacy Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Staten Island, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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, Weeks Educational and Social Advocacy Project reported income of $2.7m and spending of $2.9m, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $2.7m (+137%), an average of +54% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 120%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Weeks Educational and Social Advocacy Project sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Help One Now ($2.7m), Chalmers Center for Economic Development at Covenant College ($2.7m) and Association for a More Just Society -U S ($2.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% and program service revenue 0.5% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $128k (4.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.3m. At year end it held assets of $2.2m against liabilities of $1.8m, net assets of $406k.