Helping Hands Society of Hazleton Area Schuylkill and Carbon County

Analysis

Helping Hands Society of Hazleton Area Schuylkill and Carbon County is a registered charity in United States, based in Hazleton, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1999, 27 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, Helping Hands Society of Hazleton Area Schuylkill and Carbon County reported income of $360k and spending of $445k, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $342k to $360k (+5.3%), an average of +1.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Helping Hands Society of Hazleton Area Schuylkill and Carbon County sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bastrop County Cares ($360k), H E a R T S Connection ($360k) and Slovenska Pristava Inc ($360k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 76% and program service revenue 22% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $309k. At year end it held assets of $660k against liabilities of $27k, net assets of $633k. It reported 19 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.