Visiting Nurse Society of Philadelphia

Analysis

Visiting Nurse Society of Philadelphia is a registered charity in United States, based in Philadelphia, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1934, 92 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 June 2023, Visiting Nurse Society of Philadelphia reported income of $707k and spending of $1.2m, spending 166% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $791k to $707k (-11%), an average of -2.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income dropped by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 282% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Visiting Nurse Society of Philadelphia sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Purple Pansies Inc ($707k), Awakening Angels ($708k) and Beacon House Aftercare Program Inc ($707k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 9.1% of the total. At year end it held assets of $25.6m against liabilities of $307k, net assets of $25.3m.

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.