Southwest Louisiana AIDS Council

Analysis

Southwest Louisiana AIDS Council is a registered charity in United States, based in Lake Charles, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1989, 37 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, 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, Southwest Louisiana AIDS Council reported income of $8.3m and spending of $8.4m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $4.7m to $8.3m (+77%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Southwest Louisiana AIDS Council sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile, and in the 95th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind Inc ($8.3m), Digital Medicine Society Inc ($8.3m) and West Tennessee Family Solutions Inc ($8.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 35% and program service revenue 61% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $88k (1.1% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.7m. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $487k, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 61 employees.