Life Help

Analysis

Life Help is a registered charity in United States, based in Kirkland, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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, Life Help reported income of $276k and spending of $308k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $191k to $276k (+44%), an average of +44% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Life Help sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 58th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Asaprosar ($275k), Onmission Partners ($276k) and Oxford Consortium for Human Rights Inc ($275k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $109k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $109k.