Programs for Exceptional People

Analysis

Programs for Exceptional People is a registered charity in United States, based in Bluffton, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1996, 30 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 2023, Programs for Exceptional People reported income of $1.6m and spending of $1.4m, spending 84% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.0m to $1.6m (+63%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Programs for Exceptional People sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy ($1.6m), Domestic Violence Services of Cumberland & Perry Counties ($1.6m) and Store to Door ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 36% and program service revenue 54% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $705k. At year end it held assets of $2.8m against liabilities of $844k, net assets of $1.9m. It reported 21 employees.