Pink Lemonade Project

Analysis

Pink Lemonade Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Vancouver, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2013, 13 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, Pink Lemonade Project reported income of $1.1m and spending of $990k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $246k to $1.1m (+348%), an average of +46% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 124%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Pink Lemonade Project sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 80th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Upstate Theater Coalition for a Fairgame Inc ($1.1m), Healthy Choice Nutritional Program ($1.1m) and Matrix Community Outreach Center Inc ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 108% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $459k. At year end it held assets of $516k against liabilities of $54k, net assets of $462k. It reported 13 employees.