Living Breath Foundation

Analysis

Living Breath Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Monterey, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2009, 17 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 December 2023, Living Breath Foundation reported income of $207k and spending of $229k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $278k to $207k (-26%), an average of -7.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 205%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Living Breath Foundation sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile, and in the 57th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Central Park Lions Club Foundation ($207k), Lynch Family Foundation Ltd ($207k) and Hartford Historic Preservation Foundation Inc ($207k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 6.3% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $60k (26% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $297k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $297k.