Gary and Mary West Health Institute

Analysis

Gary and Mary West Health Institute is a registered charity in United States, based in LA Jolla, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover medical research, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a hospital or medical research organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Gary and Mary West Health Institute reported income of $21.2m and spending of $21.1m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $23.0m to $21.2m (-7.7%), an average of -2.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Gary and Mary West Health Institute sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tanner Medical Center Alabama Inc ($21.2m), Crossroads Turning Points Inc ($21.3m) and Piedmont Regional Health Inc ($21.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $2.0m (9.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.9m. At year end it held assets of $15.6m against liabilities of $14.4m, net assets of $1.2m. It reported 28 employees.