Lehigh Valley Outreach Depot

Analysis

Lehigh Valley Outreach Depot is a registered charity in United States, based in Bethlehem, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2016, 10 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, Lehigh Valley Outreach Depot reported income of $88k and spending of $41k, leaving 54% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $37k to $88k (+136%), an average of +24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 119%. Over the whole period it spent 61% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Lehigh Valley Outreach Depot sits at the 29th percentile: it is larger than about 29% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 33rd percentile, and in the 32nd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include NLCC Northern Options for Women ($88k), Juan Diez Rancheros Inc ($88k) and Osceola Sheriffs Charities Inc ($88k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% of the total. At year end it held assets of $546k against liabilities of $56k, net assets of $490k.