Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Foundation

Analysis

Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Baton Rouge, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2005, 21 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 June 2023, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Foundation reported income of $6.9m and spending of $837k, leaving 88% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $788k to $6.9m (+772%), an average of +72% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income rose by 187%. Over the whole period it spent 24% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Foundation sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile, and in the 94th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include N-Lorem Foundation ($6.9m), Hutsonwood Inc ($6.9m) and Ohio Eastern Star Home ($6.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $7,735. At year end it held assets of $29.1m against liabilities of $107k, net assets of $29.0m.