Success in Recovery

Analysis

Success in Recovery is a registered charity in United States, based in Visalia, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Success in Recovery reported income of $2.6m and spending of $2.3m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.8m to $2.6m (+42%), an average of +9.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Success in Recovery sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lakeside Hospice Inc ($2.6m), Wawa Associates in Need Fund ($2.6m) and Racine County Economic Development Corporation ($2.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.4% and program service revenue 98% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.5m. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $122k, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 27 employees.