Pals Programs

Analysis

Pals Programs is a registered charity in United States, based in Doylestown, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2011, 15 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 August 2023, Pals Programs reported income of $2.1m and spending of $1.8m, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income grew from $1.6m to $2.1m (+30%), an average of +6.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 113%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Pals Programs sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Residential Alternatives Inc ($2.1m), Morrisonville Schuyler Falls Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc ($2.1m) and Grace and Mercy Charitable Foundation ($2.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 34% and program service revenue 54% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $44k (2.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $440k. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $143k, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 11 employees.