First Call for Help of Itasca County

Analysis

First Call for Help of Itasca County is a registered charity in United States, based in Grand Rapids, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1988, 38 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 (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, First Call for Help of Itasca County reported income of $4.8m and spending of $4.6m, spending 97% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $1.7m to $4.8m (+186%), an average of +23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, First Call for Help of Itasca County sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 91st percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The National Capital Poison Center ($4.8m), Way Back Inn Inc ($4.8m) and Dyouville Leadership Solutions Inc ($4.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 27% and program service revenue 73% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $196k (4.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.4m. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $892k, net assets of $400k. It reported 130 employees.