Vita-Living Foundation

Analysis

Vita-Living Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Vita-Living Foundation reported income of $271k and spending of $492k, spending 181% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $792k to $271k (-66%), an average of -24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 68%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Vita-Living Foundation sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 64th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Alabama Log a Load for Kids Foundation Inc ($271k), Alpha House ($271k) and Samaritan Neighborhood Center ($271k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 5.6% of the total. At year end it held assets of $5.7m against liabilities of $336k, net assets of $5.4m.

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.