Medicine Wheel Recovery Services

Analysis

Medicine Wheel Recovery Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Helens, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2015, 11 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 2022, Medicine Wheel Recovery Services reported income of $3.1m and spending of $3.1m, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2022, income grew from $774k to $3.1m (+294%), an average of +41% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Medicine Wheel Recovery Services sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Valley Ambulance Authority ($3.1m), Cerebal Palsy Associations of New York State Inc ($3.1m) and Responsibility House ($3.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 91% and program service revenue 7.8% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $290k (9.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.0m. At year end it held assets of $609k against liabilities of $224k, net assets of $385k. It reported 43 employees.