Earthwide Surgical Foundation

Analysis

Earthwide Surgical Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Louis, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 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 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, Earthwide Surgical Foundation reported income of $194k and spending of $280k, spending 144% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $465k to $194k (-58%), an average of -20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 115% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Earthwide Surgical Foundation sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile, and in the 50th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fourth District Dental Society ($194k), Freelux Project ($194k) and New England Valve and Structural Heart Foundation Inc ($194k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 89% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $80k (29% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $4,500. At year end it held assets of $431k against liabilities of $1,841, net assets of $429k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.