Chicago Recovery Alliance

Analysis

Chicago Recovery Alliance is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1992, 34 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, Chicago Recovery Alliance reported income of $3.2m and spending of $2.4m, leaving 25% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.3m to $3.2m (+37%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 69%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Chicago Recovery Alliance sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Counseling and Support Services for Youth ($3.2m), Ronald McDonald House Southern Arizona ($3.2m) and Special Kids Inc ($3.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $646k. At year end it held assets of $2.7m against liabilities of $2,445, net assets of $2.7m. It reported 15 employees.