San Francisco Drug Users Union

Analysis

San Francisco Drug Users Union is a registered charity in United States, based in Oakland, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2014, 12 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, San Francisco Drug Users Union reported income of $282k and spending of $223k, leaving 21% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $308k to $282k (-8.7%), an average of -2.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 27%. 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, San Francisco Drug Users Union sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Breast Friends ($282k), Hope House Ministries Inc ($282k) and Project Brotherhood a Black Mens Mens Clinic ($282k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $34k (15% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $24k. At year end it held assets of $375k against liabilities of $2,317, net assets of $373k. It reported 7 employees.