Border Kindness

Analysis

Border Kindness is a registered charity in United States, based in El Centro, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2019, 7 years ago. Its declared purposes cover housing and shelter, which this site groups under housing and shelter. 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, Border Kindness reported income of $567k and spending of $472k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $692k to $567k (-18%), an average of -6.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Border Kindness sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 74th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include At Jacobs Well Inc ($566k), South Jefferson Housing Development Fund Co Inc ($567k) and F O H Inc ($566k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $4,358. At year end it held assets of $392k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $392k.