Roots & Roads Community Hospice Foundation

Analysis

Roots & Roads Community Hospice Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Tucson, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2001, 25 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, Roots & Roads Community Hospice Foundation reported income of $293k and spending of $459k, spending 157% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.3m to $293k (-78%), an average of -32% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 73%. Over the whole period it spent 76% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Roots & Roads Community Hospice Foundation sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 59th percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Elmhurst Walk-In Assistance Network ($293k), Foundation for Multicultural Solutions ($293k) and Together for Tanzania ($293k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 80% and program service revenue 5.8% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $237k. At year end it held assets of $918k against liabilities of $2,999, net assets of $915k. It reported 3 employees.

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.