Morning Star Community Services

Analysis

Morning Star Community Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Spokane, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Morning Star Community Services reported income of $455k and spending of $459k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $150k to $455k (+203%), an average of +32% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 111%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Morning Star Community Services sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Stanley Community Hospital ($455k), Alliance of Independent Academic Medical Centers ($455k) and Life Choice Center ($455k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 36% and program service revenue 64% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $361k. At year end it held assets of $11k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $11k. It reported 11 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.