Kansas Health Foundation

Analysis

Kansas Health Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Wichita, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 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 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, Kansas Health Foundation reported income of $7.1m and spending of $18.7m, spending 262% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $8.6m to $7.1m (-17%), an average of -4.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 656%. Over the whole period it spent 150% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Kansas Health Foundation sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile, and in the 94th percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Arden Wood Inc ($7.1m), Kids Smiles Inc ($7.1m) and Henderson County Urgent Care Center Inc ($7.1m).

Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $1.3m (6.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.2m. At year end it held assets of $402.6m against liabilities of $22.6m, net assets of $380.0m. It reported 21 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.