Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Foundation

Analysis

Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Los Angeles, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. 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, Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Foundation reported income of $191k and spending of $133k, leaving 30% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $851k to $191k (-78%), an average of -31% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Foundation sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile, and in the 55th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lynn Main Streets Inc ($191k), Rotary Club of Ventura-East Foundation Inc ($191k) and Salt Lake Chamber Foundation ($191k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $76k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $76k.