Carson Leslie Foundation

Analysis

Carson Leslie Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Dallas, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover medical research, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Carson Leslie Foundation reported income of $512k and spending of $398k, leaving 22% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $334k to $512k (+53%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 60%. Over the whole period it spent 81% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Carson Leslie Foundation sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 75th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tennis for Charity Inc ($512k), Pawnee County Medical Foundation ($513k) and Thirteen Step House Inc ($512k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $54k (14% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $129k, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 1 employees.