Lowcountry Area Health Education Center

Analysis

Lowcountry Area Health Education Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Walterboro, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2001, 25 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 June 2024, Lowcountry Area Health Education Center reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.2m, leaving 21% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income grew from $1.2m to $1.5m (+26%), an average of +6.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 81% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Lowcountry Area Health Education Center sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Steps of Faith ($1.5m), Saint Lukes Care ($1.5m) and Westlund Guidance Clinic ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $585k. At year end it held assets of $4.5m against liabilities of $84k, net assets of $4.4m. It reported 11 employees.