The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital

Analysis

The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Louis, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1993, 33 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, The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital reported income of $58.8m and spending of $34.7m, leaving 41% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $67.3m to $58.8m (-13%), an average of -3.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 906%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile, and in the 98th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include HJF Medical Research International Inc ($58.7m), The Stern Cardiovascular Foundation Inc ($58.8m) and Western New York Independent Living Inc ($58.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 32% of the total. At year end it held assets of $891.5m against liabilities of $173.6m, net assets of $717.9m.