Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation

Analysis

Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Arlington, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, 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, Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation reported income of $2.8m and spending of $3.5m, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $3.7m to $2.8m (-23%), an average of -6.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Life Center Complex Inc ($2.8m), Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia Inc ($2.8m) and Foundation of the Pennsylvania Medical Society ($2.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 72% and program service revenue 2.4% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $534k (15% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $531k. At year end it held assets of $6.2m against liabilities of $1.1m, net assets of $5.1m. It reported 7 employees.