Baton Rouge Health District

Analysis

Baton Rouge Health District is a registered charity in United States, based in Baton Rouge, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2015, 11 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, Baton Rouge Health District reported income of $1.2m and spending of $896k, leaving 26% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $575k to $1.2m (+110%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 78% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Baton Rouge Health District sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 80th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Transplant House of Cleveland ($1.2m), American Spinal Injury Association ($1.2m) and The Association of Nurses in AIDS Care ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% and program service revenue 0.1% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $195k (22% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $287k. At year end it held assets of $2.0m against liabilities of $130k, net assets of $1.9m.