Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research

Analysis

Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research is a registered charity in United States, based in Boston, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1976, 50 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 (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, Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research reported income of $4.7m and spending of $5.5m, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $5.0m to $4.7m (-4.3%), an average of -1.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 91st percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fellowship Center Alcohol Services Program Inc ($4.7m), For Petes Sake Cancer Respite Foundation ($4.7m) and Narcotic Drug Treatment Center Inc ($4.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 2.2% and program service revenue 87% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $210k (3.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.6m. At year end it held assets of $9.1m against liabilities of $1.5m, net assets of $7.6m. It reported 28 employees.