Rett Syndrome Research Trust Inc

Analysis

Rett Syndrome Research Trust Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Trumbull, CT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2008, 18 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, Rett Syndrome Research Trust Inc reported income of $8.5m and spending of $12.3m, spending 145% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $8.5m to $8.5m (+0.1%), an average of +0.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 65%. Over the whole period it spent 75% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Rett Syndrome Research Trust Inc sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within CT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fannie E Taylor Home for the Aged Care Center Inc ($8.5m), Priority Health Care ($8.5m) and Riverbend Merrimack Valley Inc ($8.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% and program service revenue 1.3% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $18.5m against liabilities of $11.3m, net assets of $7.1m. It reported 8 employees.