DC Books to Prisons

Analysis

DC Books to Prisons is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2020, 6 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, DC Books to Prisons reported income of $60k and spending of $53k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $38k to $60k (+57%), an average of +58% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, DC Books to Prisons sits at the 21st percentile: it is larger than about 21% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 24th percentile, and in the 12th percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Heroic Imagination Project ($60k), Sudanese American Society in ($60k) and Hearthfire Keep Inc ($60k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $57k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $57k.