Get America Working

Analysis

Get America Working is a registered charity in United States, based in Arlington, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1998, 28 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, Get America Working reported income of $66k and spending of $93k, spending 141% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $39k to $66k (+68%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 91%. Over the whole period it spent 81% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Get America Working sits at the 23rd percentile: it is larger than about 23% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 26th percentile, and in the 25th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include South Carolina Pest Management Charitable Foundation ($66k), Puget Sound Christian Youth Association ($66k) and Gallia County Agricultural Center Inc ($66k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $181k against liabilities of $92k, net assets of $90k.