Postal Employees Relief Fund

Analysis

Postal Employees Relief Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Fredericksbrg, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public safety, disaster preparedness and relief, which this site groups under armed forces, emergency and public safety. 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, Postal Employees Relief Fund reported income of $468k and spending of $277k, leaving 41% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $263k to $468k (+78%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 184%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 9,128 United States charities whose main cause is armed forces, emergency and public safety and that reported income, Postal Employees Relief Fund sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fire District No28 Inc ($468k), Newfield Fire Company Inc ($469k) and Humboldt Fire & Ambulance Service ($468k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $43k. At year end it held assets of $2.0m against liabilities of $2,878, net assets of $2.0m. It reported 1 employees.