Sun Health Foundation

Analysis

Sun Health Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Sun City West, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1971, 55 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 (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Sun Health Foundation reported income of $7.1m and spending of $8.3m, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $10.8m to $7.1m (-34%), an average of -10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income dropped by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 118% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Sun Health Foundation sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include North Adams Ambulance Service Inc ($7.1m), Wabash Valley Health Center ($7.1m) and Living Beyond Breast Cancer ($7.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 88% and program service revenue 0.0% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.7m. At year end it held assets of $35.4m against liabilities of $10.4m, net assets of $25.0m. It reported 14 employees.

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.