Hilltop Urban Gardens

Analysis

Hilltop Urban Gardens is a registered charity in United States, based in University PL, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2018, 8 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, Hilltop Urban Gardens reported income of $555k and spending of $438k, leaving 21% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $697k to $555k (-20%), an average of -5.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 204%. Over the whole period it spent 56% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Hilltop Urban Gardens sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 70th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Urban Voices Project ($555k), Paepae O Heeia ($555k) and Jackson-West Tennessee Coc Inc ($555k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% and program service revenue 2.3% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $80k. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $125k, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 9 employees.