Mary Bridge Brigade

Analysis

Mary Bridge Brigade is a registered charity in United States, based in Tacoma, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1926, 100 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, 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, Mary Bridge Brigade reported income of $3.5m and spending of $3.2m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.2m to $3.5m (+59%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 84%. Over the whole period it spent 159% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Mary Bridge Brigade sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 91st percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include First Person Care Consultants LLC ($3.5m), Pottsville Area Emergency Medical Services Inc ($3.5m) and Greene County Health Inc ($3.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 14% and program service revenue 11% of the total. At year end it held assets of $12.7m against liabilities of $2.2m, net assets of $10.4m.