Stop Soldier Suicide

Analysis

Stop Soldier Suicide is a registered charity in United States, based in Durham, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2011, 15 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 March 2024, Stop Soldier Suicide reported income of $13.0m and spending of $17.6m, spending 135% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2019 to March 2024, income grew from $2.3m to $13.0m (+475%), an average of +42% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 302%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Stop Soldier Suicide sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Better Health Together ($13.0m), Duffy Health Center Inc ($13.0m) and Newark AIDS Consortium Inc ($13.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending March 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $2.1m (12% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $5.7m. At year end it held assets of $7.5m against liabilities of $1.3m, net assets of $6.2m. It reported 102 employees.