Opelousas General Health System Foundation

Analysis

Opelousas General Health System Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Opelousas, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2006, 20 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, Opelousas General Health System Foundation reported income of $303k and spending of $362k, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $428k to $303k (-29%), an average of -8.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income dropped by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Opelousas General Health System Foundation sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 60th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Vision Outreach International Inc ($303k), From Fatherless to Fearless ($303k) and Andrews Gift ($303k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 135% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.2m. It reported 2 employees.

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.