Cricket Debt Counseling

Analysis

Cricket Debt Counseling is a registered charity in United States, based in Portland, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2006, 20 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, Cricket Debt Counseling reported income of $1.1m and spending of $1.4m, spending 134% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.9m to $1.1m (-45%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 114% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Cricket Debt Counseling sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 81st percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dream It Foundation Inc ($1.1m), North Georgia Works Inc ($1.1m) and Noahs Ark of West Mifflin ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 101% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $205k (14% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $595k. At year end it held assets of $3.2m against liabilities of $208k, net assets of $3.0m. It reported 7 employees.