Family and Youth Counseling Agency

Analysis

Family and Youth Counseling Agency is a registered charity in United States, based in Lake Charles, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1974, 52 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 (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, Family and Youth Counseling Agency reported income of $2.5m and spending of $2.7m, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.1m to $2.5m (+16%), an average of +3.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Family and Youth Counseling Agency sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Core Treatment Services Inc ($2.5m), Libertae Incorporated ($2.5m) and American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation ($2.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 85% and program service revenue 11% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $252k (9.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.5m. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $471k, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 52 employees.