Bethesda Recovery Center

Analysis

Bethesda Recovery Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Vista, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1987, 39 years ago. The IRS classifies it as a hospital or medical research organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Bethesda Recovery Center reported income of $1.9m and spending of $1.6m, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.9m (+66%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 77%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Bethesda Recovery Center sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Our Fathers House Soup Kitchen Inc ($1.9m), Big Sandy Activities Inc ($1.9m) and Center for Community Transitions ($1.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $747k. At year end it held assets of $435k against liabilities of $101k, net assets of $334k. It reported 33 employees.