Breast Care for Washington

Analysis

Breast Care for Washington is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, 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, Breast Care for Washington reported income of $850k and spending of $971k, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.4m to $850k (-41%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Breast Care for Washington sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 52nd percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chemical Dependency Counseling Incorporated ($850k), Gastro Girl Patient Institute ($850k) and Americas Health Foundation ($850k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 64% and program service revenue 36% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $252k. At year end it held assets of $604k against liabilities of $60k, net assets of $544k. It reported 14 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.