General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous Inc

Analysis

General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in New York, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1943, 83 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, General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous Inc reported income of $11.7m and spending of $12.9m, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $9.9m to $11.7m (+18%), an average of +4.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 21%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous Inc sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 94th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Center for Information and Study on Clinical Research Participation ($11.7m), United Cerebral Palsy Assoc of Oreg on and Southwest Washington Inc ($11.7m) and Alabama Regional Medical Services ($11.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% and program service revenue 4.1% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $5.1m. At year end it held assets of $31.2m against liabilities of $9.2m, net assets of $22.1m.