Sparrow Community Care

Analysis

Sparrow Community Care is a registered charity in United States, based in Lansing, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, 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 June 2023, Sparrow Community Care reported income of $9.7m and spending of $12.4m, spending 128% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $25.2m to $9.7m (-61%), an average of -21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income dropped by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 107% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Sparrow Community Care sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile, and in the 95th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Philadelphia Mental Health Clinic ($9.7m), North Central Texas Trauma Regional Advisory Council Inc ($9.7m) and North Central Health Services Inc ($9.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 97% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $4.5m. At year end it held assets of $22.0m against liabilities of $12.3m, net assets of $9.7m.

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.