Making Headway Center for Brain Injury Recovery

Analysis

Making Headway Center for Brain Injury Recovery is a registered charity in United States, based in Eureka, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, 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, Making Headway Center for Brain Injury Recovery reported income of $2.9m and spending of $2.3m, leaving 20% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.7m to $2.9m (+70%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Making Headway Center for Brain Injury Recovery sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Waterbury Hospital Foundation Inc ($2.9m), Family Health Initiatives Inc ($2.9m) and Irondequoit Ambulance Inc ($2.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.1% and program service revenue 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $147k (6.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.3m. At year end it held assets of $2.9m against liabilities of $424k, net assets of $2.5m. It reported 53 employees.