Perry County Health System

Analysis

Perry County Health System is a registered charity in United States, based in Perryville, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1998, 28 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 March 2023, Perry County Health System reported income of $69.5m and spending of $66.6m, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2019 to March 2023, income grew from $61.9m to $69.5m (+12%), an average of +2.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Perry County Health System sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% 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 Joint Restoration Foundation Inc ($69.4m), McLeod Health Cheraw ($69.6m) and The Menninger Clinic ($69.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending March 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.7% and program service revenue 90% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $1.6m (2.3% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $24.7m. At year end it held assets of $69.9m against liabilities of $8.4m, net assets of $61.5m. It reported 576 employees.