Head for the Cure

Analysis

Head for the Cure is a registered charity in United States, based in Kansas City, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover medical research, 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, Head for the Cure reported income of $2.3m and spending of $2.4m, spending 105% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.3m to $2.3m (-3.3%), an average of -0.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Head for the Cure sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Urban Ounce of Prevention Behavioral Health Services Inc ($2.2m), Narcotics Prevention Association Inc ($2.3m) and Warren-Vance Community Health Center Inc ($2.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 108% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $7,200 (0.3% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $555k. At year end it held assets of $699k against liabilities of $3,297, net assets of $695k. It reported 16 employees.