Connections for Life

Analysis

Connections for Life is a registered charity in United States, based in Suisun City, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2001, 25 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Connections for Life reported income of $2.4m and spending of $2.2m, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $3.5m to $2.4m (-33%), an average of -9.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income dropped by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Connections for Life sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Columbia Free Medical Clinic ($2.4m), Ronald McDonald House Madison Inc ($2.4m) and Eisenhower Center Inc ($2.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 28% and program service revenue 73% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.7m. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $120k, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 58 employees.