Recovery International

Analysis

Recovery International is a registered charity in United States, based in Oak Brook, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1942, 84 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, 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, Recovery International reported income of $686k and spending of $933k, spending 136% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.8m to $686k (-61%), an average of -21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 245%. Over the whole period it spent 56% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Recovery International sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 74th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Tristesse Grief Center Inc ($686k), The Society for the Advancement of Blood Management ($686k) and Neighborcare Health Foundation ($686k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 73% and program service revenue 0.4% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $106k (11% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $311k. At year end it held assets of $5.2m against liabilities of $1.4m, net assets of $3.8m. It reported 11 employees.