Casa El Buen Samaritano

Analysis

Casa El Buen Samaritano is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a hospital or medical research organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Casa El Buen Samaritano reported income of $1.1m and spending of $1.2m, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $600k to $1.1m (+81%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 54%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Casa El Buen Samaritano sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include A Womans Concern Inc ($1.1m), Hope Clubhouse of Southwest FL Inc ($1.1m) and Christian Health Service of Syracuse Inc ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $95k (8.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $551k. At year end it held assets of $1.9m against liabilities of $153k, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 20 employees.