Embrace Living Charities

Analysis

Embrace Living Charities is a registered charity in United States, based in Oak Brook, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1941, 85 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, Embrace Living Charities reported income of $732k and spending of $270k, leaving 63% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $358k to $732k (+105%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 103%. Over the whole period it spent 25% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Embrace Living Charities sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 75th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tash ($732k), Wisdom Projects Inc ($732k) and Cradle of Hope Adoption Center Inc ($731k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 7.2% of the total. At year end it held assets of $21.7m against liabilities of $29k, net assets of $21.7m.