Food Lifeline Foundation

Analysis

Food Lifeline Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Seattle, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation (type iii functionally integrated) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Food Lifeline Foundation reported income of $730k and spending of $80k, leaving 89% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $75k to $730k (+877%), an average of +77% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 397%. Over the whole period it spent 149% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Food Lifeline Foundation sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 75th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cleveland Child Care Inc ($730k), Rise Above Foundation ($730k) and Somebody Cares America Inc ($730k).

At year end it held assets of $26.9m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $26.9m.