Rwandan Orphans Project

Analysis

Rwandan Orphans Project is a registered charity in United States, based in LA Jolla, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2008, 18 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, Rwandan Orphans Project reported income of $115k and spending of $118k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $299k to $115k (-62%), an average of -21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 55%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Rwandan Orphans Project sits at the 36th percentile: it is larger than about 36% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 41st percentile, and in the 43rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Grace Community Food Pantry ($115k), Korean Adoptees Ministry Center ($115k) and Champion Life Foundation Inc ($115k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $97k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $97k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.