Wheeling Society for Crippled Children

Analysis

Wheeling Society for Crippled Children is a registered charity in United States, based in Wheeling, WV. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1938, 88 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, 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 August 2023, Wheeling Society for Crippled Children reported income of $522k and spending of $993k, spending 190% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income grew from $80k to $522k (+555%), an average of +60% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2020, when income rose by 2679%. Over the whole period it spent 49% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Wheeling Society for Crippled Children sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 69th percentile within WV. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Brighter Hope Group Home Inc ($522k), Spine Technology and Educational Group Organization ($522k) and Pregnancy Aid Centers Inc ($522k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 28% of the total. At year end it held assets of $13.5m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $13.5m.