I Am ALS

Analysis

I Am ALS is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2019, 7 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, 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, I Am ALS reported income of $2.3m and spending of $2.2m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.6m to $2.3m (-10%), an average of -2.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 105%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, I Am ALS sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Abortion Fund of Maryland Inc ($2.3m), Intermountain Foundation ($2.3m) and Healthy Rural California Inc ($2.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $200k (9.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $914k. At year end it held assets of $1.9m against liabilities of $57k, net assets of $1.8m. It reported 13 employees.