National Drug & Safety League

Analysis

National Drug & Safety League is a registered charity in United States, based in Jackson, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1988, 38 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 August 2023, National Drug & Safety League reported income of $74k and spending of $105k, spending 142% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income fell from $166k to $74k (-55%), an average of -18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2020, when income dropped by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 143% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, National Drug & Safety League sits at the 22nd percentile: it is larger than about 22% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 29th percentile, and in the 28th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chinese American Pathologists Association Inc ($74k), National Federation of the Blind of Indiana ($74k) and Clean Living Athens ($74k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $23k. At year end it held assets of $89k against liabilities of $283k, net assets of -$195k. It reported 2 employees.

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.