Palliative Care of the Bluegrass

Analysis

Palliative Care of the Bluegrass is a registered charity in United States, based in Lexington, KY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 December 2023, Palliative Care of the Bluegrass reported income of $3.4m and spending of $3.8m, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.5m to $3.4m (+38%), an average of +8.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 113%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Palliative Care of the Bluegrass sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within KY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sanctuary of Hope ($3.4m), New Mexico Immigrant Law Center ($3.4m) and Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc ($3.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 49% and program service revenue 50% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $232k (6.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.7m. At year end it held assets of $1.9m against liabilities of $3.2m, net assets of -$1.3m. It reported 26 employees.