Santa Maria Hostel Foundation

Analysis

Santa Maria Hostel Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending August 2023, Santa Maria Hostel Foundation reported income of $135k and spending of $256k, spending 190% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income grew from $34k to $135k (+292%), an average of +41% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2020, when income dropped by 221%. Over the whole period it spent -6902% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Santa Maria Hostel Foundation sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 45th percentile, and in the 48th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Christian Healthcare Specialists ($135k), Oasis Sober Living Program ($135k) and Caldwell Area Hospital and Health Foundation ($135k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $876k, net assets of $593k.

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.