Evidence for Healthcare Improvement

Analysis

Evidence for Healthcare Improvement is a registered charity in United States, based in Boston, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Evidence for Healthcare Improvement reported income of $6.7m and spending of $8.8m, spending 131% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $10.9m to $6.7m (-38%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 164%. Over the whole period it spent 111% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Evidence for Healthcare Improvement sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Physicians for a Healthy California ($6.7m), Door to Hope ($6.7m) and Innovative Lifestyles Inc ($6.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 74% and program service revenue 20% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $2.2m (25% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.4m. At year end it held assets of $12.2m against liabilities of $7.2m, net assets of $5.0m. It reported 37 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.