Shelters for Israel

Analysis

Shelters for Israel is a registered charity in United States, based in Beverly Hills, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1953, 73 years ago. 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 December 2023, Shelters for Israel reported income of $519k and spending of $593k, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $256k to $519k (+103%), an average of +27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 94%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Shelters for Israel sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rupert United Methodist Church Foundation ($519k), Cedar County Historical Society ($519k) and Foundation of St Catherines Center for Children ($519k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 79% of the total. At year end it held assets of $384k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $384k.