Special Friends Foundation Inc

Analysis

Special Friends Foundation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Drexel Hill, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover medical research, 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, Special Friends Foundation Inc reported income of $3.4m and spending of $2.8m, spending 82% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $712k to $3.4m (+373%), an average of +36% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 98%. Over the whole period it spent 78% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Special Friends Foundation Inc 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 88th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Southside Harm Reduction Services ($3.4m), Coalition of Health Services Inc ($3.4m) and Womens Resource & Rape Assistance Program ($3.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 6.8% and program service revenue 91% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.8m. At year end it held assets of $4.5m against liabilities of $2.1m, net assets of $2.3m. It reported 47 employees.