Teen Challenge of the Smokies Inc

Analysis

Teen Challenge of the Smokies Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Franklin, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2008, 18 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, Teen Challenge of the Smokies Inc reported income of $468k and spending of $437k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $346k to $468k (+35%), an average of +7.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Teen Challenge of the Smokies Inc sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ophelias Place Inc ($468k), Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp ($468k) and Friends of Recovery Association ($468k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $100k, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 20 employees.