Lifetides Institute

Analysis

Lifetides Institute is a registered charity in United States, based in Ridgeland, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. 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, Lifetides Institute reported income of $199k and spending of $110k, leaving 45% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $29k to $199k (+579%), an average of +89% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 418%. Over the whole period it spent 70% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Lifetides Institute sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile, and in the 59th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Passive House New England Inc ($199k), Fair Future Movement Inc ($199k) and Friends of the Mariana Trench ($199k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 3.6% and program service revenue 96% of the total. At year end it held assets of $309k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $309k.