Save Our Lives

Analysis

Save Our Lives is a registered charity in United States, based in Downers Grove, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2012, 14 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, Save Our Lives reported income of $332k and spending of $162k, leaving 51% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $203k to $332k (+64%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 28% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Save Our Lives sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile, and in the 64th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include 2nd Chance Ministry Inc ($331k), Shenandoah County Pregnancy Center Inc ($332k) and A Womens Care Center ($331k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1,325. At year end it held assets of $888k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $888k.