John Muir Foundation

Analysis

John Muir Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Walnut Creek, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1980, 46 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, John Muir Foundation reported income of $34.7m and spending of $14.0m, leaving 60% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $16.3m to $34.7m (+113%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 192%. Over the whole period it spent 52% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, John Muir Foundation sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile, and in the 98th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Med-Project USA ($34.6m), Pathways Psychiatric Hospital Inc ($34.7m) and Anmed Health Cannon ($34.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. It paid $269k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $114.0m against liabilities of $1.9m, net assets of $112.1m.