Friends of Bill Wilson Inc

Analysis

Friends of Bill Wilson Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1996, 30 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, Friends of Bill Wilson Inc reported income of $305k and spending of $345k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $721k to $305k (-58%), an average of -19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 73%. Over the whole period it spent 81% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Friends of Bill Wilson Inc sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 66th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Genesee County Free Medical Clinic Inc ($305k), United MSD Foundation ($305k) and Specialists in Global Health ($305k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $79k. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $8,742, net assets of $1.3m. It reported 16 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.