Bellingham Central Lions Club Foundation

Analysis

Bellingham Central Lions Club Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Bellingham, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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 June 2023, Bellingham Central Lions Club Foundation reported income of $95k and spending of $83k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2023, income grew from $91k to $95k (+4.5%), an average of +1.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 118%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Bellingham Central Lions Club Foundation sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 35th percentile, and in the 31st percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ag May Fbo Trinity Umc Iua ($95k), Dream Tree Mission ($95k) and Cancer Prevention and Research Fund ($95k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 8.6% of the total. At year end it held assets of $346k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $346k.