Arkansas Health Group

Analysis

Arkansas Health Group is a registered charity in United States, based in Little Rock, AR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1997, 29 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 December 2023, Arkansas Health Group reported income of $174.1m and spending of $174.0m, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $151.5m to $174.1m (+15%), an average of +3.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Arkansas Health Group sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 100th percentile, and in the 100th percentile within AR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Upmc ($174.1m), National Board of Medical Examiners ($174.2m) and St Joseph Hospital & Health Center Inc ($173.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 96% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $461k (0.3% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $128.3m. At year end it held assets of $72.5m against liabilities of $66.3m, net assets of $6.3m. It reported 1,289 employees.