Hart Research Center

Analysis

Hart Research Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Fallbrook, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religion-related, which this site groups under religion. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Hart Research Center reported income of $921k and spending of $1.3m, spending 144% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $419k to $921k (+120%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 246%. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 31,138 United States charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Hart Research Center 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 78th percentile, and in the 79th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The William J Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies in ($921k), Samaritan Counseling Center of Southern Wisconsin Inc ($921k) and Zakah Aid & Charity Assisting Humanity ($920k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 91% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $119k (9.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $166k. At year end it held assets of $4.2m against liabilities of $47k, net assets of $4.1m. It reported 8 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.