First Aid Arts

Analysis

First Aid Arts is a registered charity in United States, based in Seattle, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2009, 17 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, First Aid Arts reported income of $304k and spending of $299k, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $349k to $304k (-13%), an average of -3.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 81% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, First Aid Arts sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 60th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases ($304k), Open Minds Mental Health Services ($304k) and Ufcs ($304k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 72% and program service revenue 28% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $63k (21% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $99k. At year end it held assets of $490k against liabilities of $20k, net assets of $470k. It reported 3 employees.