Friends of Chevra Thelim Inc

Analysis

Friends of Chevra Thelim Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Portsmouth, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. 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, Friends of Chevra Thelim Inc reported income of $63k and spending of $98k, spending 157% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $41k to $63k (+53%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 72%. Over the whole period it spent 158% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Friends of Chevra Thelim Inc sits at the 28th percentile: it is larger than about 28% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 25th percentile, and in the 24th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Unison Preservation Society Inc ($63k), The Kansas City Boys Choir a Not- For-Profit Corporation ($63k) and Ohio Agribusiness Association Educational Trust ($63k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 69% and program service revenue 20% of the total. At year end it held assets of $521k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $521k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.