Association for Guidance Aid Placement & Empathy

Analysis

Association for Guidance Aid Placement & Empathy is a registered charity in United States, based in Nashville, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1966, 60 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 June 2024, Association for Guidance Aid Placement & Empathy reported income of $5.9m and spending of $5.5m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2024, income grew from $3.1m to $5.9m (+86%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Association for Guidance Aid Placement & Empathy sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Communities in Schools of North Carolina Inc ($5.9m), Wounded Warriors Family Support Inc ($5.9m) and Flipany Inc ($5.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 55% and program service revenue 43% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $175k (3.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.7m. It paid $52k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $6.4m against liabilities of $376k, net assets of $6.0m. It reported 78 employees.