Columbia Free Medical Clinic

Analysis

Columbia Free Medical Clinic is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbia, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1985, 41 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, Columbia Free Medical Clinic reported income of $2.4m and spending of $2.2m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $5.5m to $2.4m (-57%), an average of -19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Columbia Free Medical Clinic sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Eisenhower Center Inc ($2.4m), Connections for Life ($2.4m) and Accelerated Cure Project Inc ($2.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% and program service revenue 0.1% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $82k (3.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $393k. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $29k, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 13 employees.