One visit costs the clinic $134. It costs the patient nothing.
That is the whole idea, and it is what a gift pays for. $40 is one visit’s supplies. $134 is one whole visit, clinician time not counted because it is given. The medication fund buys what the patient-assistance programs do not cover.
A visit, for someone who cannot pay for one
Monthly gifts let the pharmacist restock the medication room without waiting for the next grant.
$134 covers one whole visit.
Give $134 once →Demonstration: the button opens an email; no card is taken. On a real site this is the clinic’s own giving page. Gifts are tax-deductible as the law allows; the clinic sends a statement each January.
In visits
Gifts go to the general fund unless you say otherwise; the medication fund and the dental days can be named. The split is on the Financials page every year. Gifts of stock, or a gift in someone’s name, by email to [email protected]. The clinic never lists donors by name.
Given, and bought
What the programs do not cover
Most medication arrives free through the manufacturers’ patient-assistance programs — $1.64 million of it last year at wholesale value. The gap is what the programs exclude: antibiotics for a week, a new prescription while an application is pending, insulin syringes, test strips. The clinic bought $112,000 of that last year, and the medication fund is the line that pays for it.
A monthly gift named for the medication fund is spent only there, and the January statement says so. How donated medication is valued →
In-kind list
Always needed
Blood-pressure cuffs (adult and large adult), glucose meters and strips, unopened over-the-counter medication with six months on the date, exam-table paper, gloves in every size, reading glasses.
Sometimes
A working refrigerator with a thermometer, office chairs, a laptop less than five years old, gift cards for gas (the van) and groceries (the fall dinner). Ask first: 555-0180.
Please not
Opened or expired medication of any kind, prescription medication that was not dispensed to you, used medical equipment, clothing. The clinic cannot dispense them and has to pay to dispose of them.
The numbers
People with at least one visit between 1 July 2024 and 30 June 2025, counted once each from the clinic record. Dental-day walk-ins who never registered are not included.
Every visit with a clinician in FY2025, plus dental-day patients seen. Nurse-only visits, medication pick-ups and phone calls are not counted.
Total expenses ($698,000) divided by 5,200 visits. Cash cost only: volunteer time is not valued and donated medication is not included.
Medication received through manufacturers' patient-assistance programs, valued at the manufacturer's stated wholesale price on the day it was dispensed. Shown separately from revenue and expenses, on the page and in the sample 990.
Hours signed in on the session sheet by licensed volunteers (physicians, NPs and PAs, nurses, pharmacists, dentists and hygienists) in FY2025. Counted, not valued in dollars.
Of patients with a hypertension diagnosis and at least two visits in FY2025, the share whose last reading was under 140/90. A clinic measure, not a claim about anyone's health.
Every number on this site comes with the sentence that says how it was counted. No method, no number. The blood-pressure figure is a clinic measure, not a claim about anyone’s health.
What gifts built
Two evenings a week in the former dental office, rented from the county at a rate set that year.
Shelving, a locked refrigerator and the first patient-assistance applications; the pharmacist volunteers begin.
A rented mobile unit in the parking lot and every chair in the building. Now four Saturdays a year.
The clinic qualifies under HRSA’s free-clinic program and sponsors its volunteers for federal malpractice cover.
The fourth staff post: every applicant called within three business days, every referral followed.
1,400 patients, three sessions a week, $134 a visit, and a Spanish interpreter at every session.
Sample milestones for a sample clinic; the dates are invented with everything else on this site.