Assist the Officer Inc

Analysis

Assist the Officer Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1995, 31 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 December 2023, Assist the Officer Inc reported income of $360k and spending of $246k, leaving 32% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $683k to $360k (-47%), an average of -15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 54%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Assist the Officer Inc sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bread for Life Community Food Pantry Inc ($360k), Texas Agriforestry Small Farmers and Ranchers ($360k) and Nest Community Learning Center ($360k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 70% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.1m.