Visiting Nurse Association of Boston Inc

Analysis

Visiting Nurse Association of Boston Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Worcester, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1944, 82 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, Visiting Nurse Association of Boston Inc reported income of $19.1m and spending of $19.8m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $20.6m to $19.1m (-7.1%), an average of -1.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 115% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Visiting Nurse Association of Boston Inc sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Marion Regional Medical Center Inc ($19.1m), Ninnescah Valley Health Systems Inc ($19.1m) and Harbor Beach Community Hospital Inc ($19.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 18% and program service revenue 81% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $9.7m. At year end it held assets of $6.9m against liabilities of $1.7m, net assets of $5.2m. It reported 93 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.