Sanford Health Foundation West

Analysis

Sanford Health Foundation West is a registered charity in United States, based in Sioux Falls, SD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1987, 39 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, Sanford Health Foundation West reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.0m, leaving 25% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.7m to $1.3m (-50%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 53% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Sanford Health Foundation West sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within SD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Coalition for Headache and Migraine Patients ($1.3m), Giant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc ($1.3m) and Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 51% of the total. At year end it held assets of $31.0m against liabilities of $44k, net assets of $31.0m.