Commons of Providence

Analysis

Commons of Providence is a registered charity in United States, based in Phoenix, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 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 June 2023, Commons of Providence reported income of $5.8m and spending of $6.6m, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $6.2m to $5.8m (-6.7%), an average of -1.7% a year. 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, Commons of Providence sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 91st percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Society of General Internal Medicine ($5.8m), Long Island Crisis Center Inc ($5.8m) and Addiction Recovery Incorporated ($5.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.1% and program service revenue 97% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $3.2m. At year end it held assets of $10.8m against liabilities of $1.3m, net assets of $9.5m. It reported 168 employees.

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.