Cook County Health Foundation

Analysis

Cook County Health Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2012, 14 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, Cook County Health Foundation reported income of $437k and spending of $1.4m, spending 325% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $576k to $437k (-24%), an average of -6.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 123%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Cook County Health Foundation sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include J Moss Foundation ($437k), Acadiana Pregnancy Center & Clinic ($437k) and Will Work for Recovery ($437k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 146% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $196k (14% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $133k. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $139k, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 13 employees.