Beauty Bus Foundation

Analysis

Beauty Bus Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Los Angeles, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, 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 2023, Beauty Bus Foundation reported income of $635k and spending of $756k, spending 119% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $772k to $635k (-18%), an average of -4.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Beauty Bus Foundation sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 75th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Anamosa Area Ambulance Service ($635k), Skagit Hospice Foundation ($635k) and Fore the Kids Foundation ($635k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 92% and program service revenue 6.5% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $62k (8.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $224k. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $226k, net assets of $936k. It reported 12 employees.