Friends in Service Helping-Emergency Referral Service

Analysis

Friends in Service Helping-Emergency Referral Service is a registered charity in United States, based in Carson City, NV. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1979, 47 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 June 2024, Friends in Service Helping-Emergency Referral Service reported income of $9.7m and spending of $5.2m, leaving 47% of income unspent that year. Across the 6 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2024, income grew from $3.0m to $9.7m (+228%), an average of +27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 71%. Over the whole period it spent 56% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Friends in Service Helping-Emergency Referral Service sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within NV. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Creative Concepts for Living Inc ($9.7m), Northwest Assistance Ministries ($9.7m) and Northwest Florida Area Agency on Aging Inc ($9.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% and program service revenue 10% of the total. At year end it held assets of $20.7m against liabilities of $1.4m, net assets of $19.4m. It reported 54 employees.