Shelby County Health Foundation

Analysis

Shelby County Health Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Harlan, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1984, 42 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, Shelby County Health Foundation reported income of $380k and spending of $213k, leaving 44% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $184k to $380k (+106%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 76%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Shelby County Health Foundation sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cornerstone Pregnancy Care Services Inc ($380k), River Valley Riders ($380k) and Jakes Help From Heaven Inc ($380k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 33% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.6m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $3.6m.