Teen Challenge of the Mid-South Inc

Analysis

Teen Challenge of the Mid-South Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Chattanooga, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1978, 48 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 2023, Teen Challenge of the Mid-South Inc reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.4m, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.0m to $1.3m (+29%), an average of +6.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 104%. Over the whole period it spent 108% 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 of the Mid-South Inc sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Preston Volunteer Emergency Services ($1.3m), Port Jervis Volunteer Ambulance Corps Inc ($1.3m) and Central Plains Health Care Partnership ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 91% and program service revenue 8.2% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $46k (3.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $645k. At year end it held assets of $3.2m against liabilities of $137k, net assets of $3.1m. It reported 29 employees.