Wesley Ridge

Analysis

Wesley Ridge is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbus, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1996, 30 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Wesley Ridge reported income of $6.6m and spending of $7.7m, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $6.8m to $6.6m (-3.7%), an average of -0.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 67%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Wesley Ridge sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Guest House Inc ($6.6m), Chicago Association for Research and Education in Science ($6.6m) and Central California Asthma Collaborative ($6.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.6% and program service revenue 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $2.4m. At year end it held assets of $15.0m against liabilities of $19.3m, net assets of -$4.3m.

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.