Sunset Legacy Foundation

Analysis

Sunset Legacy Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Jenison, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation (type i) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Sunset Legacy Foundation reported income of $880k and spending of $1.2m, spending 141% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.3m to $880k (-33%), an average of -9.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 259%. Over the whole period it spent 164% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Sunset Legacy Foundation sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hoosier Families Inc ($880k), Garden Park Apartments Community a California Nonprofit Public Benefi ($880k) and Matan B Seter Bambi Inc ($880k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 62% of the total. At year end it held assets of $4.0m against liabilities of $28k, net assets of $4.0m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.