Volunteers in Medicine

Analysis

Volunteers in Medicine is a registered charity in United States, based in Wilkes Barre, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, 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, Volunteers in Medicine reported income of $1.7m and spending of $1.0m, leaving 38% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $895k to $1.7m (+86%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 83%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Volunteers in Medicine sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include District of Columbia Forensic Nurse Examiners ($1.7m), Calcare Home Health Inc ($1.7m) and Childrens Mental Health Service Reach ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 92% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $134k (13% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $406k. At year end it held assets of $2.0m against liabilities of $54k, net assets of $1.9m. It reported 12 employees.