Lilac Services for the Blind

Analysis

Lilac Services for the Blind is a registered charity in United States, based in Spokane, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1971, 55 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, 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, Lilac Services for the Blind reported income of $419k and spending of $404k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $393k to $419k (+6.8%), an average of +1.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 57%. 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, Lilac Services for the Blind sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Artistic Recovery ($419k), Oak Hall Rescue Inc ($419k) and Natures Edge Therapy Center Incorporated ($419k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $61k (15% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $148k. It paid $5,670 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $45k, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 9 employees.