Contact Helpline Inc

Analysis

Contact Helpline Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Oak Ridge, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2020, 6 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 December 2022, Contact Helpline Inc reported income of $3.2m and spending of $618k, leaving 81% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income grew from $87k to $3.2m (+3621%), an average of +234% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 740%. Over the whole period it spent 31% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Contact Helpline 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 90th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Aim at Melanoma ($3.2m), Vna Care Advantage Inc ($3.2m) and TBHC Pediatric Services ($3.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $30k (4.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $479k. At year end it held assets of $2.8m against liabilities of $29k, net assets of $2.7m. It reported 24 employees.