Protect Our Defenders Foundation

Analysis

Protect Our Defenders Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Sarasota, FL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. 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, Protect Our Defenders Foundation reported income of $203k and spending of $403k, spending 199% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $404k to $203k (-50%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 130% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Protect Our Defenders Foundation sits at the 45th percentile: it is larger than about 45% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile, and in the 58th percentile within FL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Esther Inc ($203k), Institute for Disability Access Inc ($203k) and Hope Thrives Npo Inc ($203k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $192k. At year end it held assets of $930k against liabilities of $6,217, net assets of $924k. It reported 7 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.