South Texas Advancement Resource

Analysis

South Texas Advancement Resource is a registered charity in United States, based in Aguilares, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2017, 9 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, South Texas Advancement Resource reported income of $2.1m and spending of $2.1m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $270k to $2.1m (+671%), an average of +178% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 659%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, South Texas Advancement Resource sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Monarch Immigrant Services ($2.1m), New York Council on Adoptable Children Inc ($2.1m) and Wovenlife Inc ($2.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 20% and program service revenue 80% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $101k (4.9% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $79k against liabilities of $37k, net assets of $42k.