Hughes Advocacy Foundation

Analysis

Hughes Advocacy Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Brick, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2022, 4 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, Hughes Advocacy Foundation reported income of $548k and spending of $682k, spending 125% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $1.3m to $548k (-57%), an average of -35% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 75% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Hughes Advocacy Foundation sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 76th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Faith Influenced Leaders Corporation ($548k), Spring Lake Presbyterian Housing Corporation for Evergreen VLG Apts ($548k) and Bridge of Hope Greater Denver ($547k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $127k. It paid $64k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $440k against liabilities of $21k, net assets of $419k. It reported 2 employees.