High Country Community Health

Analysis

High Country Community Health is a registered charity in United States, based in Boone, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, 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 April 2024, High Country Community Health reported income of $19.8m and spending of $21.3m, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2020 to April 2024, income grew from $9.1m to $19.8m (+119%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2021, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, High Country Community Health sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 98th percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pa ($19.8m), Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Inc ($19.8m) and George Junior Republic in Pennsylvania ($19.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending April 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 21% and program service revenue 78% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $1.0m (4.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $10.1m. At year end it held assets of $15.4m against liabilities of $4.9m, net assets of $10.5m. It reported 275 employees.