Wilderness Medical Society Inc

Analysis

Wilderness Medical Society Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Austin, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2004, 22 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Wilderness Medical Society Inc reported income of $2.2m and spending of $2.2m, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.6m to $2.2m (+37%), an average of +8.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Wilderness Medical Society Inc sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sentara Halifax Regional Properties Inc ($2.2m), Health Center Association of Nebraska ($2.2m) and Aneni We Answer Inc ($2.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.8% and program service revenue 94% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $152k (7.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $369k. At year end it held assets of $2.4m against liabilities of $1.6m, net assets of $825k. It reported 7 employees.