Tipi Raisers

Analysis

Tipi Raisers is a registered charity in United States, based in Erie, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2010, 16 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, Tipi Raisers reported income of $674k and spending of $686k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $487k to $674k (+38%), an average of +8.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Tipi Raisers sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tears Foundation ($674k), Wausaukee Enterprises Incorporated ($674k) and Community Cooperative Preschool Inc ($674k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $311k. At year end it held assets of $186k against liabilities of $150k, net assets of $36k.

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.