Options for Life Foundation

Analysis

Options for Life Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Calabasas, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, 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, Options for Life Foundation reported income of $71k and spending of $44k, leaving 38% of income unspent that year. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $56k to $71k (+27%), an average of +27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 55% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Options for Life Foundation sits at the 21st percentile: it is larger than about 21% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 28th percentile, and in the 30th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Advocates for Mentally Ill Housing - Placer Inc ($71k), Sweepawaycancer Inc ($71k) and Texas Society of Infectious Control Practioners ($71k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 11% of the total. At year end it held assets of $308k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $308k.