Helen Keller Eye Research Foundation Inc

Analysis

Helen Keller Eye Research Foundation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Birmingham, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover medical research, 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, Helen Keller Eye Research Foundation Inc reported income of $416k and spending of $459k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $293k to $416k (+42%), an average of +9.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income rose by 71%. 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, Helen Keller Eye Research Foundation Inc sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 70th percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Colorado Public Health Association ($416k), Crisis Pregnancy Center of Montrose ($416k) and Shepherds Godparent Home ($416k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $138k. At year end it held assets of $40k against liabilities of $32k, net assets of $7,822. It reported 2 employees.