Viva Pima

Analysis

Viva Pima is a registered charity in United States, based in Tucson, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1961, 65 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 April 2023, Viva Pima reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.1m, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2019 to April 2023, income grew from $924k to $1.3m (+40%), an average of +8.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 70%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Viva Pima sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 79th percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include McDowell Lfac ($1.3m), Bossier Council on the Aging Inc ($1.3m) and Milagro House ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending April 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.0m against liabilities of $103k, net assets of $2.9m.