Houston Coalition for Life

Analysis

Houston Coalition for Life is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2002, 24 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 December 2023, Houston Coalition for Life reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.4m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $548k to $1.4m (+164%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2019, when income rose by 94%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Houston Coalition for Life sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 87th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Recoveryworks ($1.4m), Rippleffect Inc ($1.4m) and York Ambulance Association Inc ($1.4m).

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 $169k (12% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $526k. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $110k, net assets of $1.5m. It reported 17 employees.