Basic Health International

Analysis

Basic Health International is a registered charity in United States, based in Pittsburgh, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 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 hospital or medical research organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Basic Health International reported income of $2.6m and spending of $2.3m, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.9m to $2.6m (-11%), an average of -2.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Basic Health International sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Indiana Ambulatory Surgical Associates Inc ($2.6m), Winona Area Ambulance Service Inc ($2.6m) and Corsica River Mental Health Services Inc ($2.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 63% and program service revenue 37% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $689k (30% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $631k. At year end it held assets of $2.0m against liabilities of $245k, net assets of $1.8m. It reported 6 employees.