Detroit Lions Charities

Analysis

Detroit Lions Charities is a registered charity in United States, based in Allen Park, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1990, 36 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 February 2023, Detroit Lions Charities reported income of $2.1m and spending of $2.0m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from February 2019 to February 2023, income grew from $1.7m to $2.1m (+23%), an average of +5.2% a year. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Detroit Lions Charities sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sunshine Foundation ($2.1m), Easton Community Center Inc ($2.1m) and Incourage Community Foundation Inc ($2.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending February 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 74% of the total. At year end it held assets of $731k against liabilities of $86k, net assets of $645k.