A Life Worth Living

Analysis

A Life Worth Living is a registered charity in United States, based in Fort Collins, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, 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, A Life Worth Living reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.7m, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.5m to $1.5m (-38%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, A Life Worth Living sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Todays Hope ($1.5m), Ag Rhodes Property Holdings ($1.5m) and Spektrum Health ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.7% and program service revenue 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $168k (9.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $205k. At year end it held assets of $220k against liabilities of $704k, net assets of -$484k. It reported 25 employees.

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.