Prevention First Inc

Analysis

Prevention First Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Springfield, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1989, 37 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 June 2024, Prevention First Inc reported income of $13.2m and spending of $13.3m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income grew from $4.6m to $13.2m (+185%), an average of +30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 46%. 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, Prevention First Inc sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Henry Ford Health St John Foundation ($13.2m), Tri-County Clinical ($13.2m) and Greenfield Management Systems Inc ($13.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $750k (5.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.3m. At year end it held assets of $3.8m against liabilities of $2.8m, net assets of $944k. It reported 47 employees.