Raise the Barr

Analysis

Raise the Barr is a registered charity in United States, based in Hawthorne, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2016, 10 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, Raise the Barr reported income of $2.3m and spending of $1.3m, leaving 45% of income unspent that year. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $581k to $2.3m (+294%), an average of +98% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 135%. Over the whole period it spent 59% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Raise the Barr sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Movimiento Para El Alcance de Vida Independiente ($2.3m), Street Grace ($2.3m) and Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center Inc ($2.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 91% and program service revenue 3.3% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $156k (12% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $525k. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $58k, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 14 employees.