Helping Hut

Analysis

Helping Hut is a registered charity in United States, based in Oak Park, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2012, 14 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, Helping Hut reported income of $295k and spending of $231k, leaving 22% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $61k to $295k (+384%), an average of +48% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 188%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Helping Hut sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 61st percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Transparent Fish Fund Inc ($295k), Ceiba Vida International Inc ($296k) and Divine Mercy International Widows and Orphans Organization ($295k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 31% and program service revenue 69% of the total. At year end it held assets of $140k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $140k.