Rock River Hospice & Home

Analysis

Rock River Hospice & Home is a registered charity in United States, based in Sterling, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Rock River Hospice & Home reported income of $2.1m and spending of $2.3m, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.8m to $2.1m (+15%), an average of +3.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 107% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Rock River Hospice & Home sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Alpha Grand Rapids ($2.1m), Daggett-Crandall-Newcomb Home Inc ($2.1m) and Safenet Domestic Violence Safety Network Inc ($2.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 23% and program service revenue 76% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $3.6m against liabilities of $2.1m, net assets of $1.5m. It reported 38 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.