Southwestern Surgical Congress

Analysis

Southwestern Surgical Congress is a registered charity in United States, based in Prairie VLG, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1952, 74 years ago. 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 September 2023, Southwestern Surgical Congress reported income of $303k and spending of $354k, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income fell from $366k to $303k (-17%), an average of -4.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 131%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Southwestern Surgical Congress sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 62nd percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tennessee Valley Outreach Inc ($303k), Safe Harbor Inc ($303k) and California Genealogical Society ($303k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 32% and program service revenue 67% of the total. At year end it held assets of $301k against liabilities of $36k, net assets of $265k.