Spinal Muscular Atrophy Research Team

Analysis

Spinal Muscular Atrophy Research Team is a registered charity in United States, based in Lackawanna, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover medical research, 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 December 2023, Spinal Muscular Atrophy Research Team reported income of $104k and spending of $138k, spending 133% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $246k to $104k (-58%), an average of -19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 93%. Over the whole period it spent 118% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Spinal Muscular Atrophy Research Team sits at the 28th percentile: it is larger than about 28% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile, and in the 37th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include L3 Foundation ($104k), Assistance League of Garden Grove ($104k) and Stellas Wish Foundation ($104k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $19k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $19k.

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.