Lens on Life Project

Analysis

Lens on Life Project is a registered charity in United States, based in New York, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Lens on Life Project reported income of $88k and spending of $102k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $105k to $88k (-17%), an average of -8.7% a year. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Lens on Life Project sits at the 39th percentile: it is larger than about 39% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 33rd percentile, and in the 33rd percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Silas L Griffith Trust ($88k), Kent Community Fund Inc ($88k) and United Way of Dickinson County Inc ($88k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 91% of the total. At year end it held assets of $67k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $67k.