Southern Support Services Inc

Analysis

Southern Support Services Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in St Petersburg, FL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2017, 9 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, Southern Support Services Inc reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.1m, leaving 28% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.4m to $1.5m (+11%), an average of +2.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Southern Support Services Inc sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 85th percentile within FL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include First Step Farm of WNC Inc ($1.5m), Laureate Mental Health Corporation 6585 S Yale Ste 900 ($1.5m) and Rawlins County Dental Clinic Fund ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $31k (2.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $401k. At year end it held assets of $668k against liabilities of $225k, net assets of $443k. It reported 115 employees.