United States Lifesaving Association

Analysis

United States Lifesaving Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Laguna Beach, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1982, 44 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. 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, United States Lifesaving Association reported income of $608k and spending of $593k, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $557k to $608k (+9.2%), an average of +2.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, United States Lifesaving Association sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 74th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cincinnati Junior Rowing Club Inc ($608k), RVC Youth Volleyball Inc ($608k) and Fundamental Hoops Inc ($608k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 38% and program service revenue 14% of the total. At year end it held assets of $416k against liabilities of $16k, net assets of $400k.