Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma

Analysis

Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1988, 38 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, 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 2024, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma reported income of $2.7m and spending of $2.2m, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income grew from $2.0m to $2.7m (+30%), an average of +6.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Clear Brook Foundation ($2.7m), Erie Family Health Foundation Inc ($2.7m) and National Institute for Health Care Management Research Educ FDN ($2.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 9.1% and program service revenue 83% of the total. At year end it held assets of $6.8m against liabilities of $695k, net assets of $6.1m.