Support Life Foundation

Analysis

Support Life Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Oakland, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 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 2023, Support Life Foundation reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.3m, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $247k to $1.2m (+398%), an average of +49% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 823%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Support Life Foundation sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Third Chair ($1.2m), Austin Interfaith Sponsoring Committee Incorporated ($1.2m) and Feed the Second Line ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $766k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $766k.