Teen Challenge International Inc

Analysis

Teen Challenge International Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbus, GA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1996, 30 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 (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending September 2023, Teen Challenge International Inc reported income of $3.5m and spending of $4.3m, spending 125% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income fell from $5.1m to $3.5m (-33%), an average of -9.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2023, when income dropped by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 112% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Teen Challenge International Inc 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 GA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Saint Anthony Hospital Foundation ($3.5m), Chico Feminist Womens Health Center ($3.5m) and New Windsor Volunteer Ambulance Corps Inc ($3.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 92% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $549k. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $831k, net assets of $376k. It reported 22 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.