Doctors Without Walls-Santa Barbara Street Medicine

Analysis

Doctors Without Walls-Santa Barbara Street Medicine is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Barbara, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2008, 18 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 (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, Doctors Without Walls-Santa Barbara Street Medicine reported income of $498k and spending of $602k, spending 121% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $286k to $498k (+74%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 46%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Doctors Without Walls-Santa Barbara Street Medicine sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Narcolepsy Network Inc ($498k), Lifestyle Medical Ministry ($498k) and Reclaimed Hope Initiative ($498k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $36k (6.0% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $950k against liabilities of $96k, net assets of $853k. It reported 4 employees.