The Via Heart Project

Analysis

The Via Heart Project is a registered charity in United States, based in San Francisco, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2011, 15 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, The Via Heart Project reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.3m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.3m (+16%), an average of +3.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Via Heart Project sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Desert Healthcare Foundation ($1.3m), Alabama Head Injury Foundation Inc ($1.3m) and Washington County Emergency Medical Service Authority ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 10% and program service revenue 90% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $90k (6.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $295k. At year end it held assets of $189k against liabilities of $20k, net assets of $169k. It reported 7 employees.