General Health System

Analysis

General Health System is a registered charity in United States, based in Baton Rouge, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1984, 42 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 under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending September 2023, General Health System reported income of $136.5m and spending of $120.8m, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $101.9m to $136.5m (+34%), an average of +7.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2020, when income rose by 20%. 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, General Health System sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile, and in the 99th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Care Design New York LLC ($136.5m), Wellspace Health ($136.5m) and Yampa Valley Medical Center ($136.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.9% and program service revenue 93% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $5.5m (4.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $14.3m. At year end it held assets of $227.3m against liabilities of $70.3m, net assets of $156.9m. It reported 4,236 employees.