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Save a Child's Heart Foundation

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Every 29 hours we save a child's life
Save A Child's Heart is one of the largest undertakings in the world, providing urgently needed pediatric heart surgery and follow-up care for indigent children from 58 developing countries. Based in Israel, our mission is to improve the quality of pediatric cardiac care for children from countries where the heart surgery they need is unobtainable. SACH saves children with congenital heart defects who have almost no chance of surviving to adulthood in their native countries, and saves their lives with no political, cultural, religious, or racial preference whatsoever. Based in Israel, our mission is to improve the quality of pediatric cardiac care for children from countries where the heart surgery they need is unobtainable. SACH also trains doctors and has trained Tanzania's and Ethiopia's first pediatric cardiac surgeons. SACH is also building a new children's hospital that will house the Middle East's first International Pediatric Cardiac Care Center.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

96.16Overall score
out of 100
94.57Financial score
out of 100
100.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

These are the dataset’s historical numeric fields, not a current rating or a new DonorAPI.com assessment. Read the score context ↗

Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$2,458,690
Total expenses · USD$2,474,430

Program expenses

$2,066,149.05 recorded amount
83.5%

Fundraising expenses

$244,968.57 recorded amount
9.9%

Administrative expenses

$160,837.95 recorded amount
6.5%
Fundraising efficiency
$0.09 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

Expense shares are displayed as percentages. Component amounts in this collection match total expenses multiplied by the source ratios; rounding can leave a small difference from the total. The source does not supply a row-specific fiscal year. Field definitions ↗

Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader
David Litwack
Recorded compensation
$112,129.00
Recorded compensation percentage
4.53%

These fields do not establish the current officeholder or current compensation. The metadata does not specify the denominator of the leader compensation percentage. Read with context ↗

Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Save a Child's Heart Foundation
Source fieldOriginal source value
ascore
Accountability & transparency score
100.0
category
Category
International
description
Mission & description
Save A Child's Heart is one of the largest undertakings in the world, providing urgently needed pediatric heart surgery and follow-up care for indigent children from 58 developing countries. Based in Israel, our mission is to improve the quality of pediatric cardiac care for children from countries where the heart surgery they need is unobtainable. SACH saves children with congenital heart defects who have almost no chance of surviving to adulthood in their native countries, and saves their lives with no political, cultural, religious, or racial preference whatsoever. Based in Israel, our mission is to improve the quality of pediatric cardiac care for children from countries where the heart surgery they need is unobtainable. SACH also trains doctors and has trained Tanzania's and Ethiopia's first pediatric cardiac surgeons. SACH is also building a new children's hospital that will house the Middle East's first International Pediatric Cardiac Care Center.
ein
EIN
52-1783323
tot_exp
Total expenses
2474430.0
admin_exp_p
Administrative expense fraction
0.065
fund_eff
Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)
0.09
fund_exp_p
Fundraising expense fraction
0.099
program_exp_p
Program expense fraction
0.835
fscore
Financial score
94.57
leader
Recorded leader
David Litwack
leader_comp
Recorded leader compensation
112129.0
leader_comp_p
Recorded leader compensation fraction
0.0453
motto
Tagline
Every 29 hours we save a child's life
name
Charity name
Save a Child's Heart Foundation
tot_rev
Total revenue
2458690.0
score
Overall score
96.16
state
State code
MD
subcategory
Subcategory
Development and Relief Services
size
Source size label
small
program_exp
Program expenses
2066149.0499999998
fund_exp
Fundraising expenses
244968.57
admin_exp
Administrative expenses
160837.95

Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.