Reel Life International Inc

Analysis

Reel Life International Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Birmingham, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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, Reel Life International Inc reported income of $1.3m and spending of $969k, leaving 27% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $716k to $1.3m (+87%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 110%. Over the whole period it spent 77% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Reel Life International Inc sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 86th percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Millennium Promise Alliance Inc ($1.3m), Helping Hands Ministries International Inc ($1.3m) and New Jewish Narrative Inc ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $72k. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $5,848, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 3 employees.