Changing Lenses Changing Lives

Analysis

Changing Lenses Changing Lives is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Fe, NM. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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, Changing Lenses Changing Lives reported income of $112k and spending of $93k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $96k to $112k (+17%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Changing Lenses Changing Lives sits at the 37th percentile: it is larger than about 37% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile, and in the 36th percentile within NM. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Peg Partners Inc ($112k), Edens Rose Foundation ($112k) and Armenian Center for National and International Studies ($112k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $68k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $68k.