Long Island Teen Challenge

Analysis

Long Island Teen Challenge is a registered charity in United States, based in West Babylon, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1994, 32 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 church under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2022, Long Island Teen Challenge reported income of $3.4m and spending of $4.4m, spending 128% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $4.5m to $3.4m (-23%), an average of -8.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Long Island Teen Challenge sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Somerset Area Ambulance Association ($3.4m), Tri State Community Health Center ($3.4m) and Hudson Valley Regional Community Health Centers Inc ($3.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 22% and program service revenue 1.9% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $83k (1.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.3m. At year end it held assets of $5.4m against liabilities of $3.7m, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 104 employees.