Operation Helping Hands

Analysis

Operation Helping Hands is a registered charity in United States, based in Mission Viejo, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Operation Helping Hands reported income of $90k and spending of $95k, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $69k to $90k (+31%), an average of +7.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 228%. Over the whole period it spent 44% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Operation Helping Hands sits at the 30th percentile: it is larger than about 30% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 34th percentile, and in the 36th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Act Foundation USA Inc ($90k), Flatout Without Limits ($90k) and Children of Jamaica Outreach ($90k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1,785. At year end it held assets of $478k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $478k. It reported 1 employees.