Assistance League of Greater Portland

Analysis

Assistance League of Greater Portland is a registered charity in United States, based in Beaverton, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1964, 62 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 May 2023, Assistance League of Greater Portland reported income of $1.0m and spending of $685k, leaving 32% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from May 2020 to May 2023, income grew from $751k to $1.0m (+33%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2022, when income rose by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 78% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Assistance League of Greater Portland 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 Health Enrichment Network Inc ($1.0m), Araminta Freedom Initiative Inc ($1.0m) and Wirt County Committee on Aging Inc ($1.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending May 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 88% of the total. At year end it held assets of $5.9m against liabilities of $744k, net assets of $5.1m.