Mekimi

Analysis

Mekimi is a registered charity in United States, based in Brooklyn, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2004, 22 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 December 2023, Mekimi reported income of $293k and spending of $304k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $364k to $293k (-20%), an average of -5.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 93%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Mekimi sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 58th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Team Tony Cancer Foundation Inc ($293k), Donate Life South Carolina ($293k) and Hope Mental Health Foundation ($293k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $55k against liabilities of $48k, net assets of $7,036.