Contact the Crisis Line

Analysis

Contact the Crisis Line is a registered charity in United States, based in Jackson, MS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 December 2023, Contact the Crisis Line reported income of $606k and spending of $569k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $354k to $606k (+71%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Contact the Crisis Line sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 74th percentile within MS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Martin Luther King Jr Child Development Center Inc ($606k), Pulaski County Adoption Coalition ($606k) and Luv U Project in Memory of Carolyn C Mattingly Inc ($606k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $38k (6.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $205k. At year end it held assets of $408k against liabilities of $56k, net assets of $352k. It reported 10 employees.