Help Right Here

Analysis

Help Right Here is a registered charity in United States, based in Chattanooga, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2019, 7 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, Help Right Here reported income of $328k and spending of $306k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $67k to $328k (+393%), an average of +122% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 302%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Help Right Here sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile, and in the 64th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Meals on Wheels of Coweta Inc ($328k), Harris Center Foundation ($328k) and Deena Motechin Jacobs Gemilas Chesed Fund ($328k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $96k (31% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $63k. At year end it held assets of $121k against liabilities of $4,187, net assets of $117k. It reported 10 employees.