Help for Others

Analysis

Help for Others is a registered charity in United States, based in Sterling, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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 June 2024, Help for Others reported income of $91k and spending of $99k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income fell from $97k to $91k (-6.1%), an average of -1.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Help for Others sits at the 31st percentile: it is larger than about 31% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 34th percentile, and in the 34th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Global Helping Hands Inc ($91k), One World Unity Project Inc ($91k) and Preserve International ($91k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $74k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $74k.

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.