Baxter Regional Health System

Analysis

Baxter Regional Health System is a registered charity in United States, based in Mountain Home, AR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation (type ii) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Baxter Regional Health System reported income of $13.2m and spending of $20.3m, spending 154% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $3.0m to $13.2m (+344%), an average of +45% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 135%. Over the whole period it spent 153% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Baxter Regional Health System sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within AR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Health Care Advocates International Inc ($13.2m), The Weld Trust ($13.2m) and Guidance Center of Lea County Inc ($13.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $12.0m. At year end it held assets of $14.3m against liabilities of $11.9m, net assets of $2.4m. It reported 2,517 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.