Chesapeake Health Education Program Inc

Analysis

Chesapeake Health Education Program Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Perryville, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1992, 34 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, Chesapeake Health Education Program Inc reported income of $3.8m and spending of $3.7m, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.3m to $3.8m (+62%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 63%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Chesapeake Health Education Program Inc sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Country Neighbor Program Inc ($3.8m), Diocesan Council Society of St Vincent de Paul Cleveland Diocese ($3.8m) and Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Green Bay Inc ($3.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 69% and program service revenue 28% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $149k (4.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $736k. At year end it held assets of $3.3m against liabilities of $1.9m, net assets of $1.5m. It reported 21 employees.