Blue Ridge Legal Services Inc

Analysis

Blue Ridge Legal Services Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Harrisonburg, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1977, 49 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. 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, Blue Ridge Legal Services Inc reported income of $3.3m and spending of $3.1m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.5m to $3.3m (+34%), an average of +7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Blue Ridge Legal Services Inc sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Damascus Way Re-Entry Center Inc ($3.3m), Citizens for Self-Governance ($3.3m) and Fair Elections Center ($3.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $2.1m. At year end it held assets of $1.9m against liabilities of $451k, net assets of $1.5m. It reported 34 employees.