Kama Relief Corporation

Analysis

Kama Relief Corporation is a registered charity in United States, based in Portland, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2002, 24 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, Kama Relief Corporation reported income of $1.0m and spending of $1.1m, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from June 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $400k to $1.0m (+151%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 280%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Kama Relief Corporation sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile, and in the 80th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Colorado Food Cluster Inc ($1.0m), B G C Inc ($1.0m) and Operation Keepsake Inc ($1.0m).

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 $14k. At year end it held assets of $124k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $124k.

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.