Institute for Drivers Safety

Analysis

Institute for Drivers Safety is a registered charity in United States, based in Tempe, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public safety, disaster preparedness and relief, which this site groups under armed forces, emergency and public safety. 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, Institute for Drivers Safety reported income of $1.0m and spending of $1.2m, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.1m to $1.0m (-2.1%), an average of -0.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 9,128 United States charities whose main cause is armed forces, emergency and public safety and that reported income, Institute for Drivers Safety sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Churches of Christ Disaster Response Team ($1.0m), New Hope Eagle Fire Co ($1.0m) and Hoosic Valley Rescue Squad ($1.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $121k (10% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $100k against liabilities of $55k, net assets of $45k. It reported 22 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.