Public Health Fund

Analysis

Public Health Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Philadelphia, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1976, 50 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation (type i) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Public Health Fund reported income of $433k and spending of $1.2m, spending 269% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $3.8m to $433k (-89%), an average of -42% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income dropped by 102%. Over the whole period it spent 134% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Public Health Fund sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Osborne Head and Neck Foundation ($433k), Amistad Y Salud ($433k) and 21 Roots Farm ($433k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 47% of the total. At year end it held assets of $14.6m against liabilities of $1.7m, net assets of $12.9m.

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.