Daisy Foundation

Analysis

Daisy Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Anacortes, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2000, 26 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, Daisy Foundation reported income of $3.5m and spending of $3.0m, spending 84% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.4m to $3.5m (+49%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 99%. Over the whole period it spent 81% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Daisy Foundation sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 91st percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Eaton Emergency Medical Technicians Inc ($3.5m), Association of Military Surgeons of the U S ($3.5m) and Wheeling Health Right Inc ($3.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 152% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $519k (17% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.4m. At year end it held assets of $5.4m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $5.4m. It reported 32 employees.