Iowa Lutheran Hospital Auxiliary

Analysis

Iowa Lutheran Hospital Auxiliary is a registered charity in United States, based in Des Moines, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1965, 61 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a church under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Iowa Lutheran Hospital Auxiliary reported income of $174k and spending of $106k, leaving 39% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $150k to $174k (+16%), an average of +3.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 486%. Over the whole period it spent 78% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Iowa Lutheran Hospital Auxiliary sits at the 38th percentile: it is larger than about 38% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 51st percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Big Horn County Memorial Hospital and Health Care Foundation ($174k), Ihe International Inc ($174k) and Four Winds Center for Healing and the Arts Inc ($174k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 6.5% of the total. At year end it held assets of $230k against liabilities of $20k, net assets of $210k.