Grateful Gatherings

Analysis

Grateful Gatherings is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2015, 11 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, Grateful Gatherings reported income of $955k and spending of $766k, spending 80% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $422k to $955k (+126%), an average of +23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Grateful Gatherings sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile, and in the 80th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Upper Chesapeake Residential Hospice House Inc ($955k), Save a Life International Inc ($955k) and The Giving Spirit ($955k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 108% and program service revenue 0.2% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $200k (26% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $75k. At year end it held assets of $709k against liabilities of $40k, net assets of $669k. It reported 7 employees.