Bessie Boley Foundation

Analysis

Bessie Boley Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in St Petersburg, FL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1971, 55 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 August 2022, Bessie Boley Foundation reported income of $103k and spending of $112k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2022, income fell from $224k to $103k (-54%), an average of -23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2021, when income rose by 120%. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Bessie Boley Foundation sits at the 28th percentile: it is larger than about 28% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile, and in the 41st percentile within FL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Our Lady of Hope Residence ($103k), Wisconsin Hospice and Palliative Care Collaborative Inc ($103k) and Goshen Cancer Foundation ($103k).

At year end it held assets of $2.8m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.8m.