Kaleidoscope Fighting Lupus

Analysis

Kaleidoscope Fighting Lupus is a registered charity in United States, based in Marylhurst, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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 June 2024, Kaleidoscope Fighting Lupus reported income of $123k and spending of $229k, spending 187% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income grew from $84k to $123k (+46%), an average of +9.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 58%. Over the whole period it spent 224% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Kaleidoscope Fighting Lupus sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 42nd percentile, and in the 42nd percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lexington High Booster Club ($123k), Ezra Lisomim Inc ($123k) and Arkansas Association of Alternative Educa ($123k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. At year end it held assets of $329k against liabilities of $3,195, net assets of $326k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.