Bethesda Workshops

Analysis

Bethesda Workshops is a registered charity in United States, based in Nashville, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2012, 14 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, Bethesda Workshops reported income of $1.1m and spending of $942k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.0m to $1.1m (+9.8%), an average of +2.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 79%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Bethesda Workshops sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Addiction Services of Indiana Inc ($1.1m), Robertson County Hospital Trust ($1.1m) and A Womans Choice Inc a Medical Program for Women ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 12% and program service revenue 87% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $178k (19% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $67k. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $403k, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 9 employees.