Health and saving lives: charities in United States

Overview

United States has 93,326 registered charities working on health and saving lives on the current register extract, of which 40,470 reported income in their latest return. Together they reported $1.70tn of income. The median charity took in $363k, while the largest tenth reported $26.0m or more, so a typical donation goes to a far smaller organisation than the household names at the top of this list.

Income is concentrated: the ten largest charities working on health and saving lives account for 12% of the total. Across the whole group, 3,016 charities have a note from the register, such as overdue accounts or three years of spending above income, and those notes are shown on each charity's page.

11,109 of the charities with reported income (27%) took in under $100k a year. Pages for the 29,371 charities with several years of accounts include their full income history, a comparison with similar-sized peers and a breakdown of where the money comes from.