Missouri · Nonprofit
SLING HEALTH
SLING HEALTH (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $479,307 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ($381,900). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $40k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $479k
- Net assets
- $89k
What Sling Health does
Mission
The primary purpose of the organization is to provide educational and scientific development in the medical and engineering fields for students and trainees.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Innovation education for students and trainees: Over the last year, we expanded our reach, bringing together over 300 students onto interdisciplinary teams. Through their individual projects in Sling Health, these students underwent 30 weeks of extracurricular experience in innovation and entrepreneurship related to biomedical technologies. This educational platform supported Sling Health missions and the missions of our partner universities to train students from cities including: St. Louis, Boston, Philadelphia, Ann Arbor, Atlanta, New Orleans, Lubbock, College Station and Los Angeles, and newly added Miami, and Denver.
$12,728 spent29% of program spendingDevelopment of new biomedical technologies: We supported over 40 new teams creating solutions to vetted clinical problems, and continued support for several teams that participated in previous years. The total number of teams and new biomedical technologies that have gone through our program is over 250 since our founding in 2013. As of the end of 2023, over 30 have continued as new companies. At least 17 have gone on to raise outside capital to date by 2023, totaling in excess of $150MM. Furthermore, we maintain and upgrade yearly a clinical problem database (currently with ~250 clinical needs) that identify current gaps within the healthcare system. This database serves as a starting platform for the future development of biomedical solutions.
$24,279 spentof which $14,144 as grants56% of program spending3) Increased exposure to biomedical entreprenuership: We increased exposure to medical entrepreneurship through multiple avenues. We conducted an augmented reality-enabled Demo Day, attracting over 200 participants. Here, our entrepreneurial teams showcased their prototypes to a broader audience, marking a significant milestone in their journey. We also featured in a prominent medical journal about our extended 6-week virtual innovation bootcamp, organized in mid-2022. This program involved over 100 participants from 30 global universities, creating 20 teams focused on solving emerging healthcare problems, reflecting our ever-expanding international footprint.
$6,372 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $43,379.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $110k to $89k (−20%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of SLING HEALTH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (89% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Minju Lee
Chairman of the Board, Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $112k → $80k.
From the IRS filings of SLING HEALTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
SLING HEALTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SLING HEALTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 52% · 2019 93% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
81% of SLING HEALTH's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
SLING HEALTH's revenue grew 250369% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 660 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like SLING HEALTH
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SLING HEALTH: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SLING HEALTH?
- SLING HEALTH (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $479,307 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ($381,900). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SLING HEALTH have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $479,307 in grants to SLING HEALTH, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SLING HEALTH?
- WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $381,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SLING HEALTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing