Our Brothers Keeper Shelter

Analysis

Our Brothers Keeper Shelter is a registered charity in United States, based in Big Rapids, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover housing and shelter, which this site groups under housing and shelter. 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, Our Brothers Keeper Shelter reported income of $465k and spending of $410k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $93k to $465k (+401%), an average of +50% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 78%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Our Brothers Keeper Shelter 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 69th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Housing Assistance Office Inc ($465k), Sunnyvale Life Inc ($465k) and Ahepa 78 Inc ($464k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $310k. At year end it held assets of $249k against liabilities of $25k, net assets of $224k. It reported 41 employees.