Help in Crisis

Analysis

Help in Crisis is a registered charity in United States, based in Tahlequah, OK. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1981, 45 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 June 2023, Help in Crisis reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.3m, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $1.3m to $1.4m (+8.6%), an average of +2.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 15%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Help in Crisis sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 85th percentile within OK. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Contentment Foundation ($1.4m), Doubleday Babcock Senior Center Inc ($1.4m) and South Fulton Senior Services Inc ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 89% and program service revenue 0.3% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $785k. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $128k, net assets of $1.0m. It reported 37 employees.