Southwest Alabama Foundation for Mental Health Mental Retardation

Analysis

Southwest Alabama Foundation for Mental Health Mental Retardation is a registered charity in United States, based in Monroeville, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1986, 40 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, Southwest Alabama Foundation for Mental Health Mental Retardation reported income of $294k and spending of $297k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income fell from $320k to $294k (-8.2%), an average of -2.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income dropped by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Southwest Alabama Foundation for Mental Health Mental Retardation sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Epic Foundation Inc ($294k), Race Cancer Foundation Inc ($294k) and Graham Hospital Foundation ($293k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $67k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $67k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.