Birmingham Regional Paratransit Consortium

Analysis

Birmingham Regional Paratransit Consortium is a registered charity in United States, based in Birmingham, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public and societal benefit, which this site groups under other charitable purposes. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending September 2023, Birmingham Regional Paratransit Consortium reported income of $2.8m and spending of $3.3m, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income fell from $5.0m to $2.8m (-44%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income dropped by 45%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Birmingham Regional Paratransit Consortium sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Prairie Enthusiasts Inc ($2.8m), Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc ($2.8m) and On Our Own ($2.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 91% and program service revenue 4.6% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.2m. At year end it held assets of $1.9m against liabilities of $278k, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 8 employees.

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.