Discovery House Inc

Analysis

Discovery House Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Spirit Lake, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1998, 28 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 December 2023, Discovery House Inc reported income of $233k and spending of $195k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $118k to $233k (+98%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 64%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Discovery House Inc sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 43% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 58th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Allergists Foundation ($233k), Center for Adaptive Riding ($233k) and American Friends of the Dublin Neurological Institute Inc ($233k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $71k. At year end it held assets of $298k against liabilities of $27k, net assets of $271k. It reported 2 employees.