Helping Hands Improving Lives

Analysis

Helping Hands Improving Lives is a registered charity in United States, based in Oakland, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 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 2023, Helping Hands Improving Lives reported income of $514k and spending of $421k, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $262k to $514k (+96%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Helping Hands Improving Lives sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Arrows Family Services ($514k), Women in Need ($514k) and Women Food and Agriculture Network ($514k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.2% and program service revenue 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $283k. At year end it held assets of $220k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $220k. It reported 19 employees.