Surgical Infection Society

Analysis

Surgical Infection Society is a registered charity in United States, based in Leesburg, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1980, 46 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, 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, Surgical Infection Society reported income of $293k and spending of $440k, spending 150% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $729k to $293k (-60%), an average of -20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 68%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Surgical Infection Society 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 VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Generations for Life Inc ($293k), Kawasaki Kids Foundation ($293k) and Brian Dagle Foundation Inc ($293k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. At year end it held assets of $161k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $161k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.