LA Luz Center

Analysis

LA Luz Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Sonoma, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1995, 31 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, LA Luz Center reported income of $1.8m and spending of $2.6m, spending 145% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $3.1m to $1.8m (-41%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, LA Luz Center sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mt Desert Island YMCA ($1.8m), Elite Disability Services of Nebraska Inc ($1.8m) and Ken Anderson Alliance ($1.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $195k (7.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $7.3m against liabilities of $157k, net assets of $7.2m. It reported 26 employees.