Desert Edge Mentoring Services

Analysis

Desert Edge Mentoring Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Laveen, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2007, 19 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 (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, Desert Edge Mentoring Services reported income of $697k and spending of $670k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $599k to $697k (+16%), an average of +3.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Desert Edge Mentoring Services sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Apple Hill Surgical Center Inc ($697k), Parkview Foundation Inc ($697k) and Saint Joseph Foundation of Kokomo ($696k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 78% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $85k (13% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $390k. At year end it held assets of $177k against liabilities of $150k, net assets of $27k. It reported 20 employees.