Saving Lives Inc

Analysis

Saving Lives Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2016, 10 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, Saving Lives Inc reported income of $82k and spending of $81k, spending 98% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $228k to $82k (-64%), an average of -40% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 73%. Over the whole period it spent 112% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Saving Lives Inc sits at the 28th percentile: it is larger than about 28% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile, and in the 33rd percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Second Hand Rose for Charity of Clarendon County Inc ($82k), Como Community Center ($82k) and Joseph and Leslie Carr Foundation ($82k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $16k against liabilities of $34k, net assets of -$18k.