International Medical Relief

Analysis

International Medical Relief is a registered charity in United States, based in Denver, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2002, 24 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, International Medical Relief reported income of $111.6m and spending of $111.9m, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $65.9m to $111.6m (+69%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 46%. 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, International Medical Relief sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile, and in the 100th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center ($111.5m), Brattleboro Memorial Hospital ($111.6m) and Childrens Hospital at Mission ($111.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $396k (0.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $227k. At year end it held assets of $625k against liabilities of $318k, net assets of $307k. It reported 3 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.