Foundation for Teen Health

Analysis

Foundation for Teen Health is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1991, 35 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, Foundation for Teen Health reported income of $123k and spending of $208k, spending 170% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $126k to $123k (-2.8%), an average of -0.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 179%. Over the whole period it spent 156% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Foundation for Teen Health sits at the 31st percentile: it is larger than about 31% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 42nd percentile, and in the 45th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Society of Facet Surgical Techniques and Technologies Inc ($123k), Childrens Resiliency Project Inc ($123k) and South Central Pennsylvania Sickle Cell Council ($123k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% of the total. At year end it held assets of $575k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $575k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.