Puentes de Salud

Analysis

Puentes de Salud is a registered charity in United States, based in Philadelphia, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2009, 17 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 December 2023, Puentes de Salud reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.9m, spending 151% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $943k to $1.2m (+32%), an average of +7.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 89%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Puentes de Salud sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 80th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Oconto Falls Area Joint Ambulance Service Inc ($1.2m), Mel Leaman Free Clinic of Smyth County Inc ($1.2m) and Community Cares Local Development Corporation ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 84% and program service revenue 16% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.3m. At year end it held assets of $2.5m against liabilities of $119k, net assets of $2.4m. It reported 16 employees.