Westlund Guidance Clinic

Analysis

Westlund Guidance Clinic is a registered charity in United States, based in Saginaw, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1969, 57 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, Westlund Guidance Clinic reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.6m, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.6m to $1.5m (-1.5%), an average of -0.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 119% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Westlund Guidance Clinic sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include A Caring Closet ($1.5m), Steps of Faith ($1.5m) and Mothers Milk Bank of Florida ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.4% and program service revenue 96% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $146k (8.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $509k. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $3.2m, net assets of -$1.1m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.