Messengers for Health

Analysis

Messengers for Health is a registered charity in United States, based in Crow Agency, MT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2014, 12 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, Messengers for Health reported income of $292k and spending of $228k, leaving 22% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $187k to $292k (+57%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 81% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Messengers for Health sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 61st percentile within MT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Thriving Families Counseling Services Inc ($292k), Lisas Army Inc ($292k) and International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons FDN ($292k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $81k (36% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $68k. At year end it held assets of $311k against liabilities of $20k, net assets of $292k. It reported 9 employees.