Friends of the Living Desert Inc

Analysis

Friends of the Living Desert Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Carlsbad, NM. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1984, 42 years ago. 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, Friends of the Living Desert Inc reported income of $65k and spending of $102k, spending 156% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $85k to $65k (-23%), an average of -6.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 112%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Friends of the Living Desert Inc sits at the 25th percentile: it is larger than about 25% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 26th percentile, and in the 21st percentile within NM. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Idaho State Search and Rescue Assocation Inc ($65k), Mattole Valley Community Center Inc ($65k) and Research & Advocacy Institute Gilgit-Baltistan Raigb ($65k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 87% of the total. At year end it held assets of $163k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $163k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.