Dorn Research Institute

Analysis

Dorn Research Institute is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbia, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover medical research, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending September 2023, Dorn Research Institute reported income of $587k and spending of $565k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $286k to $587k (+105%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income rose by 100%. Over the whole period it spent 73% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Dorn Research Institute sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 77th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Voices of September 11 Inc ($587k), Synchrony of Visalia Inc ($587k) and Carti Auxiliary Inc ($587k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 6.8% and program service revenue 83% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $434k. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $26k, net assets of $1.5m. It reported 8 employees.