Special Strides

Analysis

Special Strides is a registered charity in United States, based in Monroe, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2000, 26 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Special Strides reported income of $888k and spending of $798k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.0m to $888k (-15%), an average of -3.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Special Strides sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 81st percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gouverneur Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc ($888k), Upstream Prevention Inc ($888k) and Greater Reading Mental Health Alliance ($887k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 62% and program service revenue 39% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $164k (21% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $219k. At year end it held assets of $916k against liabilities of $17k, net assets of $899k. It reported 22 employees.