Operation Lift Up

Analysis

Operation Lift Up is a registered charity in United States, based in Louisville, MS. 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 2023, Operation Lift Up reported income of $255k and spending of $336k, spending 132% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $453k to $255k (-44%), an average of -17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Operation Lift Up sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 61st percentile within MS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Miracle League of Mercer County Inc ($255k), Massachusetts Early Intervention Consortium Inc ($255k) and Gold Beach Community Center ($255k).

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 $134k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $134k.