Emergency Release Fund

Analysis

Emergency Release Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in New York, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2020, 6 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. 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, Emergency Release Fund reported income of $66k and spending of $392k, spending 594% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $3.6m to $66k (-98%), an average of -74% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 87%. Over the whole period it spent 34% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Emergency Release Fund sits at the 22nd percentile: it is larger than about 22% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 26th percentile, and in the 27th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include B a B E S Inc-Child Abuse Prevention Program ($66k), Hear Our Voices Inc ($66k) and Oklahoma Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association ($66k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.4m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.4m.