Every nonprofit organization has overhead costs, including the Phoenix Dream Center. The IRS likes for nonprofits to keep the overhead costs to no more than 20%. We’ve been able to keep overhead at around 11% for years.
Things like insurance, electricity, water, gas, fundraising and administrative staff are a necessary part of every organization. But overhead expenses aren’t something that every donor wants to support, and we don’t think they should have to.
It had long been a goal of our fundraising team that 100% of all individual donations go directly to the program of the donors choice.