Roper St Francis Foundation

Analysis

Roper St Francis Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Ladson, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1987, 39 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, Roper St Francis Foundation reported income of $13.2m and spending of $10.0m, leaving 24% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $8.0m to $13.2m (+65%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 215%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Roper St Francis Foundation sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration ($13.1m), Schoellkopf Health Center ($13.2m) and Central Oregon Health Council ($13.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 89% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $576k (5.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.9m. At year end it held assets of $44.5m against liabilities of $1.7m, net assets of $42.8m. It reported 31 employees.