Assist

Analysis

Assist is a registered charity in United States, based in Portland, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, 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, Assist reported income of $592k and spending of $548k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $283k to $592k (+109%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Assist sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hope4recovery ($592k), Appendix Cancer Pseudomyxoma Peritonei Research Foundation ($592k) and Hill Top Center ($592k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 52% and program service revenue 45% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $82k (15% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $285k. It paid $6,975 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $275k against liabilities of $3,336, net assets of $271k. It reported 10 employees.