We Defy

Analysis

We Defy is a registered charity in United States, based in McKinney, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2021, We Defy reported income of $459k and spending of $338k, leaving 26% of income unspent that year. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2021, income grew from $204k to $459k (+125%), an average of +50% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 89%. Over the whole period it spent 78% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, We Defy sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Grow2zero Farms ($459k), Barton County Youth Care Inc ($459k) and Herrin House of Hope ($459k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2021, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. At year end it held assets of $246k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $246k.