Quechua Benefit

Analysis

Quechua Benefit is a registered charity in United States, based in Hillsboro, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2000, 26 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, Quechua Benefit reported income of $437k and spending of $489k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $779k to $437k (-44%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 58%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Quechua Benefit sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Compassion Connection ($437k), Tasai Inc ($437k) and Nutrition and Education International ($436k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 77% and program service revenue 1.1% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $98k. At year end it held assets of $132k against liabilities of $135k, net assets of -$2,747. It reported 6 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.