Warning Lights

Analysis

Warning Lights is a registered charity in United States, based in Byron Center, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Warning Lights reported income of $133k and spending of $115k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $83k to $133k (+61%), an average of +61% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Warning Lights sits at the 39th percentile: it is larger than about 39% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile, and in the 44th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Amys Wish with Wings ($133k), Steward Station Ltd ($133k) and Mercy Soup Kitchen of Wyandanch Inc ($133k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $100k against liabilities of $3,974, net assets of $96k.