Whatcom Hospice Foundation

Analysis

Whatcom Hospice Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Bellingham, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1991, 35 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 June 2023, Whatcom Hospice Foundation reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.1m, leaving 30% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $1.5m to $1.5m (+3.2%), an average of +0.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 517%. Over the whole period it spent 42% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Whatcom Hospice Foundation sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation Inc ($1.5m), Council on Alcoholism & Other Chemical Dependencies of the Finge ($1.5m) and Release Recovery Foundation Inc ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 88% of the total. At year end it held assets of $13.7m against liabilities of $310k, net assets of $13.3m.