Donate Life South Carolina

Analysis

Donate Life South Carolina is a registered charity in United States, based in Greenville, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, Donate Life South Carolina reported income of $293k and spending of $329k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $324k to $293k (-9.6%), an average of -2.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 114% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Donate Life South Carolina sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile, and in the 66th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mekimi ($293k), Aonl Foundation for Nursing Leadership Research and Education ($293k) and Team Tony Cancer Foundation Inc ($293k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $81k (25% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $29k. At year end it held assets of $92k against liabilities of $20k, net assets of $72k. It reported 2 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.