Seattle Housing and Resource Effort

Analysis

Seattle Housing and Resource Effort is a registered charity in United States, based in Seattle, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1993, 33 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, Seattle Housing and Resource Effort reported income of $3.1m and spending of $2.9m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $970k to $3.1m (+218%), an average of +34% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 80%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Seattle Housing and Resource Effort sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include South Valley Sanctuary Inc ($3.1m), Families First in Essex County Inc ($3.1m) and University at Buffalo Child Care Center Inc ($3.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% and program service revenue 0.7% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.4m. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $150k, net assets of $943k. It reported 56 employees.