Attack Poverty

Analysis

Attack Poverty is a registered charity in United States, based in Richmond, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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 June 2023, Attack Poverty reported income of $1.8m and spending of $3.4m, spending 189% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $7.8m to $1.8m (-77%), an average of -31% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income dropped by 55%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Attack Poverty sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Holy Land Missions ($1.8m), Israel Scholarship Education Foundation ($1.8m) and The Vandenberg Coalition Inc ($1.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.3m. At year end it held assets of $6.7m against liabilities of $3.9m, net assets of $2.8m. It reported 40 employees.