Shepherds House Inc

Analysis

Shepherds House Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Lexington, KY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1986, 40 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, Shepherds House Inc reported income of $3.1m and spending of $2.4m, leaving 22% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $3.1m (+175%), an average of +29% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 79% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Shepherds House 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 89th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within KY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fourfront Contributor ($3.1m), Davis-Stuart Inc ($3.1m) and Quantum House Inc ($3.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 26% and program service revenue 62% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.3m. At year end it held assets of $3.6m against liabilities of $24k, net assets of $3.6m. It reported 47 employees.