Oregon Spinal Cord Injury Connection

Analysis

Oregon Spinal Cord Injury Connection is a registered charity in United States, based in Portland, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, 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, Oregon Spinal Cord Injury Connection reported income of $1.1m and spending of $448k, leaving 60% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $467k to $1.1m (+143%), an average of +34% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 153%. Over the whole period it spent 59% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Oregon Spinal Cord Injury Connection sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 81st percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Vitas Community Connection ($1.1m), Hepatitis B Initiative Ofwashington DC ($1.1m) and Hope Charity International ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% and program service revenue 0.4% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $74k (17% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $181k. At year end it held assets of $1.0m against liabilities of $13k, net assets of $999k. It reported 8 employees.