Support for Life

Analysis

Support for Life is a registered charity in United States, based in San Antonio, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover medical research, 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, Support for Life reported income of $120k and spending of $71k, leaving 41% of income unspent that year. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $258k to $120k (-54%), an average of -32% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 33%. 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, Support for Life sits at the 31st percentile: it is larger than about 31% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 42nd percentile, and in the 45th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Quietmind Foundation ($120k), Sickle Cell Support Services ($120k) and Catherine McAuley Health Services Corp ($120k).

At year end it held assets of $79k against liabilities of $25k, net assets of $55k.