Health Emergency Assistance of Detroit

Analysis

Health Emergency Assistance of Detroit is a registered charity in United States, based in Detroit, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1987, 39 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, 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 September 2023, Health Emergency Assistance of Detroit reported income of $6.5m and spending of $6.0m, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $4.7m to $6.5m (+38%), an average of +8.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2020, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Health Emergency Assistance of Detroit sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include North Shore-Lij Ob-Gyn at New Hyde Park PC ($6.5m), The Counseling Center of Wayne & Holmes Counties ($6.5m) and Wyandot Behavioral Health Network Inc ($6.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% and program service revenue 8.9% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $2.2m. At year end it held assets of $4.1m against liabilities of $1.3m, net assets of $2.8m. It reported 19 employees.