Northwest Alabama Mental Health Center

Analysis

Northwest Alabama Mental Health Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Jasper, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1968, 58 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 September 2023, Northwest Alabama Mental Health Center reported income of $25.8m and spending of $27.1m, spending 105% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $24.5m to $25.8m (+5.1%), an average of +1.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2020, when income dropped by 100%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Northwest Alabama Mental Health Center sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile, and in the 99th percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Mental Health Center Inc ($25.8m), Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences ($25.8m) and Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency ($25.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 7.8% and program service revenue 91% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $16.6m. At year end it held assets of $25.4m against liabilities of $6.4m, net assets of $19.0m. It reported 650 employees.