Onondaga Council on Alcoholism and Addiction Inc

Analysis

Onondaga Council on Alcoholism and Addiction Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Syracuse, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1950, 76 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, Onondaga Council on Alcoholism and Addiction Inc reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.5m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income fell from $1.5m to $1.5m (-0.5%), an average of -0.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Onondaga Council on Alcoholism and Addiction Inc sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 80th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Davids Refuge Inc ($1.5m), Community Coalition for Families & Children ($1.5m) and Childrens Leukemia Foundation of Michigan ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 88% and program service revenue 9.2% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $80k (5.3% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $641k. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $373k, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 23 employees.

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.