Fathers Uplift Inc

Analysis

Fathers Uplift Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Dorchester, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2014, 12 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, Fathers Uplift Inc reported income of $2.6m and spending of $3.0m, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $709k to $2.6m (+262%), an average of +38% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 109%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Fathers Uplift Inc sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Waste Not Want Not ($2.6m), Ace Foundation ($2.6m) and Bethesda Cares Inc ($2.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 92% and program service revenue 8.1% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.7m. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $706k, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 46 employees.