Shields and Stripes Inc

Analysis

Shields and Stripes Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Carthage, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2021, 5 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Shields and Stripes Inc reported income of $353k and spending of $327k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $161k to $353k (+119%), an average of +48% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 77%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Shields and Stripes Inc sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Protectors Peak Retreat Center Inc ($353k), T Leroy Jefferson Medical Society Inc ($353k) and Community Alternative Services Foundation Inc ($353k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. At year end it held assets of $0 against liabilities of $0, net assets of $0.