Health Forward Foundation

Analysis

Health Forward Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Kansas City, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation (type i) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Health Forward Foundation reported income of $20.2m and spending of $50.3m, spending 249% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $31.4m to $20.2m (-36%), an average of -10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 300%. Over the whole period it spent 62% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Health Forward Foundation sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include St Camillus Health System Inc ($20.2m), Vision to Learn ($20.2m) and Willow Glen Care Center ($20.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.0% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $1.9m (3.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.7m. At year end it held assets of $905.3m against liabilities of $18.1m, net assets of $887.2m. It reported 36 employees.