Southern California Helping Hands

Analysis

Southern California Helping Hands is a registered charity in United States, based in Whittier, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2003, 23 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 2022, Southern California Helping Hands reported income of $228k and spending of $185k, spending 81% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2022, income fell from $436k to $228k (-48%), an average of -28% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 109%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Southern California Helping Hands sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile, and in the 59th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Crisis Prevention and Response Center Inc ($228k), Valdez Adventure Alliance ($228k) and Sustainable Liberia Inc ($228k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $288k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $288k.