Gingerbread House

Analysis

Gingerbread House is a registered charity in United States, based in Shreveport, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1998, 28 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, Gingerbread House reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.3m, spending 98% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $836k to $1.4m (+64%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Gingerbread House 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 83rd percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Schizophrenia International Research Society Inc ($1.4m), Osteosarcoma Institute ($1.4m) and Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 85% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $79k, net assets of $1.3m. It reported 14 employees.