Sams Foundation

Analysis

Sams Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2007, 19 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 (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, Sams Foundation reported income of $99.9m and spending of $85.3m, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $40.0m to $99.9m (+150%), an average of +26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 148%. 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, Sams Foundation sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile, and in the 98th percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Newton Healthcare Corporation ($99.9m), Greater Oregon Behavioral Health Inc ($100.0m) and Deaconess Health System Inc ($99.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $489k (0.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $22.7m. At year end it held assets of $40.2m against liabilities of $7.6m, net assets of $32.6m. It reported 31 employees.