Wilderness Health

Analysis

Wilderness Health is a registered charity in United States, based in Two Harbors, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation (type i) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Wilderness Health reported income of $1.7m and spending of $1.6m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.3m to $1.7m (+34%), an average of +7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Wilderness Health sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Inner-Tribal Treatment ($1.7m), Sullivan County Oral Health Collaborative Inc ($1.7m) and North Central Health Foundation Inc ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 80% and program service revenue 20% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $835k. At year end it held assets of $2.2m against liabilities of $299k, net assets of $1.9m.