Barlow Foundation

Analysis

Barlow Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Los Angeles, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1996, 30 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 August 2023, Barlow Foundation reported income of $532k and spending of $360k, leaving 32% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income grew from $452k to $532k (+18%), an average of +4.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 522%. Over the whole period it spent 78% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Barlow Foundation sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include American Surgical Association Foundation ($532k), Unite Up ($532k) and Brooks Ambulance Inc ($532k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 53% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $68k. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $107k, net assets of $1.5m.