Friends of Recovery Cafe

Analysis

Friends of Recovery Cafe is a registered charity in United States, based in Seattle, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2010, 16 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 supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Friends of Recovery Cafe reported income of $8.8m and spending of $2.8m, leaving 68% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2023, income grew from $2.5m to $8.8m (+252%), an average of +52% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 750%. Over the whole period it spent 51% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Friends of Recovery Cafe 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 95th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Stedman-Wade Health Services Inc ($8.8m), San Antonio AIDS Foundation ($8.8m) and Bourbon Heights Incorporated ($8.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 88% and program service revenue 3.1% of the total. At year end it held assets of $44.3m against liabilities of $2.5m, net assets of $41.8m.