Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation

Analysis

Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Mechanicsburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1987, 39 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation reported income of $2.9m and spending of $3.2m, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.2m to $2.9m (+31%), an average of +7.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 63%. 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, Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Epigenetic Clock Development Corporation ($2.9m), Integrated Care Collaboration ($2.9m) and Piney Woods Regional Advisory Council ($2.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.4% and program service revenue 94% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $390k (12% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $804k. At year end it held assets of $5.1m against liabilities of $2.1m, net assets of $3.0m. It reported 14 employees.