The Nehemiah Project

Analysis

The Nehemiah Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Petoskey, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2010, 16 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, The Nehemiah Project reported income of $506k and spending of $430k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $210k to $506k (+141%), an average of +25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 196%. Over the whole period it spent 68% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Nehemiah Project sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 70th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Services Agency of South Texas Inc ($506k), Trillium Institute ($506k) and Noah Community Outreach Inc ($506k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $115k. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $1,152, net assets of $1.3m. It reported 4 employees.