Community Lifeline

Analysis

Community Lifeline is a registered charity in United States, based in Shelton, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 2021, Community Lifeline reported income of $449k and spending of $471k, spending 105% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2021, income grew from $275k to $449k (+64%), an average of +28% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 149%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Community Lifeline sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pay Away the Layaway Inc ($449k), Seeds of Love ($450k) and Starkville Pregnancy Care Center ($449k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2021, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $298k. At year end it held assets of $466k against liabilities of $21k, net assets of $445k. It reported 25 employees.