West African Health Foundation

Analysis

West African Health Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Brooklyn, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2003, 23 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, West African Health Foundation reported income of $103k and spending of $95k, spending 92% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $108k to $103k (-4.1%), an average of -4.1% a year. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, West African Health Foundation sits at the 28th percentile: it is larger than about 28% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile, and in the 37th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Licking Memorial Twigs ($103k), Project Share VI Inc ($103k) and Community Cancer Fund ($103k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $24k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $24k.