The Shafer Center for Crisis Intervention

Analysis

The Shafer Center for Crisis Intervention is a registered charity in United States, based in Hattiesburg, MS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1984, 42 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, The Shafer Center for Crisis Intervention reported income of $427k and spending of $415k, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $515k to $427k (-17%), an average of -4.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Shafer Center for Crisis Intervention sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within MS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Paws for Patrick ($427k), Communicare Health Foundation ($427k) and Vitamin Bridge ($427k).

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 $53k (13% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $185k. At year end it held assets of $231k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $231k. It reported 8 employees.