Elks Youth Eye Service

Analysis

Elks Youth Eye Service is a registered charity in United States, based in Portland, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1966, 60 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mutual and membership benefit, which this site groups under other charitable purposes. 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 March 2024, Elks Youth Eye Service reported income of $2.8m and spending of $1.9m, leaving 32% of income unspent that year. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2019 to March 2024, income fell from $3.5m to $2.8m (-19%), an average of -4.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 143%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Elks Youth Eye Service sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dakota Plains Legal Services Inc ($2.8m), Western Fire Cheifs Assn ($2.8m) and Greenwood Christian School Inc ($2.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending March 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 8.6% of the total. At year end it held assets of $58.9m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $58.9m.