Aunt Ritas Foundation

Analysis

Aunt Ritas Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Phoenix, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, Aunt Ritas Foundation reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.2m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.0m to $1.2m (+15%), an average of +3.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Aunt Ritas Foundation sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 78th percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Careity Foundation ($1.2m), W Edwards Deming Institute ($1.2m) and Brem Foundation to Defeat Breast Cancer Inc ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 51% and program service revenue 47% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $240k. It paid $2,480 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $462k against liabilities of $427k, net assets of $35k. It reported 6 employees.