Agua Para LA Vida

Analysis

Agua Para LA Vida is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1995, 31 years ago. Its declared purposes cover unknown, 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 September 2023, Agua Para LA Vida reported income of $170k and spending of $200k, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2023, income fell from $203k to $170k (-16%), an average of -8.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2023, when income dropped by 15%. Over the whole period it spent 111% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Agua Para LA Vida sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile, and in the 52nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc ($170k), St Thomas St John Services for the Developmentally Disabled Inc ($170k) and Livingston County Community Development Corporation ($170k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. At year end it held assets of $157k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $157k.

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.