Briarpatch Youth Services Inc

Analysis

Briarpatch Youth Services Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Fitchburg, WI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. 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 December 2023, Briarpatch Youth Services Inc reported income of $3.5m and spending of $3.1m, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $3.0m to $3.5m (+16%), an average of +3.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Briarpatch Youth Services Inc sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 91st percentile within WI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Womens Environment and Development Organization Wedo ($3.5m), Juvenile Law Center ($3.5m) and Roxbury Youthworks Inc ($3.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% and program service revenue 4.9% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $111k (3.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.1m. At year end it held assets of $5.6m against liabilities of $255k, net assets of $5.4m. It reported 138 employees.