Keren Simchas Kallah

Analysis

Keren Simchas Kallah is a registered charity in United States, based in Lakewood, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2002, 24 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, Keren Simchas Kallah reported income of $1.8m and spending of $1.6m, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $587k to $1.8m (+209%), an average of +33% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 72%. 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, Keren Simchas Kallah 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 85th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sylvia Center Incorporated ($1.8m), Fourth Circuit Public Defender Corporation ($1.8m) and Greenhouse Ministries ($1.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% and program service revenue 21% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.9m against liabilities of $10k, net assets of $1.9m.