Help and Emergency Response Inc

Analysis

Help and Emergency Response Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Portsmouth, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1989, 37 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 June 2023, Help and Emergency Response Inc reported income of $1.7m and spending of $1.8m, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $1.6m to $1.7m (+3.2%), an average of +0.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 101%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Help and Emergency Response Inc sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include TLC Child Care Inc ($1.7m), Military Family Advisory Network ($1.7m) and Hope Street Group ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $86k (4.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $749k. At year end it held assets of $2.9m against liabilities of $56k, net assets of $2.9m. It reported 66 employees.