Hack Your Lives

Analysis

Hack Your Lives is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 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 (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, Hack Your Lives reported income of $133k and spending of $118k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $85k to $133k (+55%), an average of +55% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 55%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Hack Your Lives 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 46th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Grace Under the Oaks Inc ($133k), Gardiner Food Pantry of Park County ($133k) and Brentwood Meals on Wheels Inc ($133k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 59% and program service revenue 41% of the total. At year end it held assets of $47k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $47k.