Encouragement for Life

Analysis

Encouragement for Life is a registered charity in United States, based in Irvine, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1996, 30 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Encouragement for Life reported income of $230k and spending of $247k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $162k to $230k (+42%), an average of +9.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 81%. Over the whole period it spent 76% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Encouragement for Life sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 59th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pollack Foundation Inc ($229k), New Hope Celebrates Inc ($230k) and All You Can Inc ($229k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.9m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.9m.