Grassrootshealth

Analysis

Grassrootshealth is a registered charity in United States, based in Encinitas, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2008, 18 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, Grassrootshealth reported income of $417k and spending of $428k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $610k to $417k (-32%), an average of -9.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 65%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Grassrootshealth sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Memorial Ambulance Corps Isle Au Haut-Stonington-Deer Isle ($417k), Innovations in Reproductive Health Access ($417k) and Ohio Valley Health Center ($417k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 7.9% and program service revenue 91% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $76k (18% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $42k. At year end it held assets of $17k against liabilities of $386k, net assets of -$369k. It reported 3 employees.