Southern Legacy of Life

Analysis

Southern Legacy of Life is a registered charity in United States, based in Little Rock, AR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1989, 37 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 December 2023, Southern Legacy of Life reported income of $23.3m and spending of $22.5m, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $14.7m to $23.3m (+59%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Southern Legacy of Life sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within AR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ohios Hospice Inc ($23.3m), Congreso de Latinos Unidos Inc ($23.3m) and Anchorage Neighborhood Health ($23.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.1% and program service revenue 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $669k (3.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $8.4m. At year end it held assets of $21.2m against liabilities of $4.4m, net assets of $16.8m. It reported 134 employees.