Kansas Advocates for Better Care

Analysis

Kansas Advocates for Better Care is a registered charity in United States, based in Lawrence, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1978, 48 years ago. 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, Kansas Advocates for Better Care reported income of $279k and spending of $405k, spending 145% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $333k to $279k (-16%), an average of -4.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 216%. Over the whole period it spent 45% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Kansas Advocates for Better Care sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 60th percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Newport Public Library ($279k), PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc ($280k) and Dayton Depot Historical Society ($279k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 58% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $86k (21% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $114k. At year end it held assets of $3.7m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $3.7m. It reported 4 employees.