Samaritans on Cape Cod and the Islands Inc

Analysis

Samaritans on Cape Cod and the Islands Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Mashpee, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1981, 45 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, 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, Samaritans on Cape Cod and the Islands Inc reported income of $1.8m and spending of $1.7m, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $388k to $1.8m (+368%), an average of +47% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 103%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Samaritans on Cape Cod and the Islands Inc sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Day by Day Adult Care Inc ($1.8m), Dar a Luz Birth & Health Center ($1.8m) and Sickle Cell Disease Association of America Michigan Chapter Inc ($1.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.2m. At year end it held assets of $657k against liabilities of $81k, net assets of $576k. It reported 69 employees.