Mercy Health Fort Smith Communities

Analysis

Mercy Health Fort Smith Communities is a registered charity in United States, based in Fort Smith, AR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2013, 13 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 (type ii) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Mercy Health Fort Smith Communities reported income of $508k and spending of $602k, spending 119% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $132k to $508k (+285%), an average of +40% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 64%. Over the whole period it spent 239% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Mercy Health Fort Smith Communities sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within AR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Intermountain Lipid Center PLLC ($508k), Potters House Substance Abuse Center ($508k) and Academy Health Center Inc ($507k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 24% and program service revenue 69% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $11.0m. At year end it held assets of $6.6m against liabilities of $1.1m, net assets of $5.5m.

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.