Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation

Analysis

Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Sonoma, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1982, 44 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, Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation reported income of $1.8m and spending of $2.6m, spending 143% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $3.1m to $1.8m (-42%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 70%. Over the whole period it spent 137% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Coalition for National Trauma Research ($1.8m), Adena Health Foundation ($1.8m) and Logan Health Care Center - Shelby ($1.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 71% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $201k (7.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $19k. At year end it held assets of $9.7m against liabilities of $459k, net assets of $9.2m. It reported 3 employees.

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.