Samaritan Counseling Center of the Capital Region

Analysis

Samaritan Counseling Center of the Capital Region is a registered charity in United States, based in Scotia, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1984, 42 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, Samaritan Counseling Center of the Capital Region reported income of $81k and spending of $20k, leaving 76% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $173k to $81k (-53%), an average of -17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 123%. Over the whole period it spent 67% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Samaritan Counseling Center of the Capital Region sits at the 24th percentile: it is larger than about 24% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 31st percentile, and in the 32nd percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Partners in Innovation Education and Research Consortium ($81k), Holistic Science Charitable Research Foundation Inc ($81k) and Boyne Area Free Clinic ($81k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 76% and program service revenue 1.1% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $265k, net assets of $1.4m.