Samaritan Counseling Center

Analysis

Samaritan Counseling Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Denver, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1987, 39 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 June 2024, Samaritan Counseling Center reported income of $2.5m and spending of $2.6m, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income grew from $1.4m to $2.5m (+73%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Samaritan Counseling Center sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bateman Horne Center of Excellence Inc ($2.5m), Nova Institute for Health Inc ($2.5m) and MPN Research Foundation ($2.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 20% and program service revenue 75% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $52k (2.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.2m. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $220k, net assets of $976k. It reported 40 employees.