Darien Ems Post 53 Inc

Analysis

Darien Ems Post 53 Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Darien, CT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2002, 24 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, Darien Ems Post 53 Inc reported income of $848k and spending of $1.3m, spending 151% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $727k to $848k (+17%), an average of +3.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 135% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Darien Ems Post 53 Inc sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 76th percentile within CT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Healing Hearts Foundation ($848k), Canton-Potsdam Medical Practice PLLC ($848k) and Family Practice Inquiries Network Consortium Inc ($848k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 54% and program service revenue 46% of the total. At year end it held assets of $9.4m against liabilities of $69k, net assets of $9.4m.

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.