Little Hercules Foundation

Analysis

Little Hercules Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Dublin, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2014, 12 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, Little Hercules Foundation reported income of $502k and spending of $588k, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $272k to $502k (+85%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 98%. Over the whole period it spent 125% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Little Hercules Foundation sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 70th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include American Journal of Hypertension Ltd ($502k), Childrens Heart Foundation ($502k) and Montgomery Cancer Wellness Foundation ($502k).

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 $375k (64% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $53k. At year end it held assets of $37k against liabilities of $15k, net assets of $22k. It reported 6 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.