Communities for Recovery

Analysis

Communities for Recovery is a registered charity in United States, based in Austin, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2004, 22 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, Communities for Recovery reported income of $2.5m and spending of $2.1m, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.5m to $2.5m (+65%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Communities for Recovery sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 91st percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Feeding Matters Inc ($2.5m), Tri-County Health Network ($2.5m) and Madison Ambulance Association Inc ($2.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% and program service revenue 5.4% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $91k (4.3% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.3m. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $155k, net assets of $1.2m. It reported 43 employees.