Willie Lopez Emergency Assistance Fund

Analysis

Willie Lopez Emergency Assistance Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Dublin, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Willie Lopez Emergency Assistance Fund reported income of $557k and spending of $709k, spending 127% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $648k to $557k (-14%), an average of -3.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Willie Lopez Emergency Assistance Fund sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Domestic Violence Crisis Services ($557k), Andrews Senior Activity Center Inc ($557k) and Caring Touch Christian Family Center ($557k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $899k against liabilities of -$2,697, net assets of $901k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.