Lingap Childrens Foundation

Analysis

Lingap Childrens Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Jackson, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2005, 21 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, Lingap Childrens Foundation reported income of $1.5m and spending of $524k, leaving 64% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $983k to $1.5m (+50%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 34% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Lingap Childrens Foundation sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pathlight International Inc ($1.5m), International Campaign to Ban Landmines Inc ($1.5m) and Israel Food Distribution Inc ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% of the total. At year end it held assets of $9.0m against liabilities of $556, net assets of $9.0m.