Merrill Pioneer Community Hospital

Analysis

Merrill Pioneer Community Hospital is a registered charity in United States, based in Rock Rapids, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1961, 65 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 June 2023, Merrill Pioneer Community Hospital reported income of $1.6m and spending of $2.1m, spending 131% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $917k to $1.6m (+79%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 163% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Merrill Pioneer Community Hospital sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kids Counseling Inc ($1.6m), Rogers Behavioral Health - Georgia Inc ($1.6m) and Central Falls Children S Foundation ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 18% and program service revenue 70% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1,720. At year end it held assets of $25.0m against liabilities of $17.1m, net assets of $7.8m. It reported 1 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.