Blue River Housing

Analysis

Blue River Housing is a registered charity in United States, based in Fort Gratiot, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1984, 42 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 September 2023, Blue River Housing reported income of $426k and spending of $378k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income fell from $640k to $426k (-33%), an average of -9.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2023, when income dropped by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Blue River Housing sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Asha USA Inc ($426k), Catholic Health Initiatives National Foundation ($426k) and Libbys Friends ($426k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 93% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $151k. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $225k, net assets of $1.3m. It reported 12 employees.