Chicago Lower Extremity Surgical Foundation

Analysis

Chicago Lower Extremity Surgical Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2014, 12 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 (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 2022, Chicago Lower Extremity Surgical Foundation reported income of $68k and spending of $68k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $263k to $68k (-74%), an average of -36% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 183%. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Chicago Lower Extremity Surgical Foundation sits at the 21st percentile: it is larger than about 20% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 27th percentile, and in the 28th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The@va Medical Foster Home ($68k), D B Peru Inc ($68k) and Ohio Association of Gerontology and Education ($68k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from program service revenue 106% of the total. At year end it held assets of $147k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $147k.