Simply Help Foundation

Analysis

Simply Help Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Los Angeles, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2001, 25 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, Simply Help Foundation reported income of $716k and spending of $728k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.1m to $716k (-36%), an average of -10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 64%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Simply Help Foundation sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Project Against Violent Encounters ($716k), Neighbors Along the Line ($716k) and Trauma Intervention Program of Portland Vancouver Inc ($716k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.1m.