International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies

Analysis

International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies is a registered charity in United States, based in Brentwood, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1986, 40 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, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.1m, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.6m to $1.2m (-27%), an average of -7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pennsylvania Institute for Community Living Inc ($1.2m), Shoot for a Cure ($1.2m) and Roanoke Valley Speech and Hearing Center Inc ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 4.2% and program service revenue 82% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.0m against liabilities of $422k, net assets of $591k.