Prevention Works Inc

Analysis

Prevention Works Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Kalamazoo, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1996, 30 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 September 2023, Prevention Works Inc reported income of $2.5m and spending of $2.1m, spending 85% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from September 2018 to September 2023, income fell from $2.9m to $2.5m (-13%), an average of -2.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2019, when income dropped by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 76% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Prevention Works Inc sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gennesaret Free Clinic Inc ($2.5m), Green River Medical Center Inc ($2.5m) and Map Behavioral Health Services Inc ($2.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% and program service revenue 0.2% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $298k (14% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $727k. At year end it held assets of $4.6m against liabilities of $912k, net assets of $3.6m. It reported 65 employees.