Donate Life Foundation

Analysis

Donate Life Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Louis, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, Donate Life Foundation reported income of $12.4m and spending of $4.0m, leaving 68% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.9m to $12.4m (+552%), an average of +60% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 305%. Over the whole period it spent 78% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Donate Life Foundation sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 94th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kahl Home for the Aged & Infirm ($12.4m), Centro Medico Community Clinic Inc ($12.4m) and Linden Oaks ($12.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 20% and program service revenue 0.6% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $171k. At year end it held assets of $85.5m against liabilities of $100k, net assets of $85.4m. It reported 1 employees.