Orpe Human Rights Advocates

Analysis

Orpe Human Rights Advocates is a registered charity in United States, based in Glen Burnie, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2022, Orpe Human Rights Advocates reported income of $4.0m and spending of $3.5m, spending 88% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2022, income grew from $3.2m to $4.0m (+24%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Orpe Human Rights Advocates sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile, and in the 90th percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Reno Initiative for Shelter and Equality ($4.0m), New Life Center ($4.0m) and Conway County Center for Exceptional Children Inc ($4.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 73% and program service revenue 21% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $385k. It paid $14k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $4.7m against liabilities of $515k, net assets of $4.2m. It reported 32 employees.