Public Health Institute

Analysis

Public Health Institute is a registered charity in United States, based in Oakland, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1967, 59 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, Public Health Institute reported income of $297.8m and spending of $283.5m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $120.9m to $297.8m (+146%), an average of +25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Public Health Institute sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 100th percentile, and in the 100th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lima Memorial Joint Operating Company ($297.5m), St Helena Hospital ($298.0m) and St Elizabeths Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Orde ($297.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 42% and program service revenue 57% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $3.5m (1.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $92.1m. At year end it held assets of $129.0m against liabilities of $62.0m, net assets of $67.1m. It reported 1,179 employees.