Alpha Center

Analysis

Alpha Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Camden, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Alpha Center reported income of $3.4m and spending of $3.0m, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $3.8m to $3.4m (-11%), an average of -2.8% a year. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Alpha Center sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Muskegon Community Health Project ($3.4m), Mann Medical Research Organization ($3.4m) and Amador Health Center Inc ($3.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 80% and program service revenue 19% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.3m. At year end it held assets of $6.5m against liabilities of $2.4m, net assets of $4.0m. It reported 55 employees.