Desert Healthcare Foundation

Analysis

Desert Healthcare Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Palm Springs, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1968, 58 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, Desert Healthcare Foundation reported income of $1.3m and spending of $4.1m, spending 307% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2023, income grew from $523k to $1.3m (+154%), an average of +36% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 685%. Over the whole period it spent 138% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Desert Healthcare Foundation sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Washington County Emergency Medical Service Authority ($1.3m), The Via Heart Project ($1.3m) and Maternal-Infant Services Network of Orange Sullivan & Ulster Cnty Inc ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 91% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $149k. At year end it held assets of $5.3m against liabilities of $1.8m, net assets of $3.5m.