Southwest Guidance Center

Analysis

Southwest Guidance Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Liberal, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1995, 31 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, Southwest Guidance Center reported income of $2.7m and spending of $2.7m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.0m to $2.7m (+31%), an average of +7.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 30%. 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, Southwest Guidance Center sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Acmc Foundation ($2.7m), Arh Foundation for Healthiercommunities Inc ($2.7m) and Woar Philadelphia Center Against Sexual Violence ($2.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 63% and program service revenue 35% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.3m. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $200k, net assets of $1.5m. It reported 30 employees.