The Samaritan Center at the Jersey Shore Inc

Analysis

The Samaritan Center at the Jersey Shore Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Manasquan, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 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 publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, The Samaritan Center at the Jersey Shore Inc reported income of $482k and spending of $453k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $514k to $482k (-6.2%), an average of -1.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 18%. 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, The Samaritan Center at the Jersey Shore 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 70th percentile, and in the 75th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Iron County Home Health Agency ($482k), Little Urban Smiles Inc ($482k) and A New Generation of Hernando Inc ($482k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 14% and program service revenue 53% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $326k. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $519k, net assets of $677k. It reported 12 employees.