Low Country Health Care System

Analysis

Low Country Health Care System is a registered charity in United States, based in Fairfax, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1999, 27 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending November 2023, Low Country Health Care System reported income of $27.0m and spending of $25.7m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from November 2019 to November 2023, income grew from $18.3m to $27.0m (+48%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to November 2021, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Low Country Health Care System sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile, and in the 98th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Overlook Masonic Health Center Inc ($27.0m), Life St Mary ($27.0m) and Butler Cancer Associates Inc ($27.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending November 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 26% and program service revenue 74% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $556k (2.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $12.5m. At year end it held assets of $18.2m against liabilities of $3.2m, net assets of $15.1m. It reported 270 employees.