Assistance League of Los Altos

Analysis

Assistance League of Los Altos is a registered charity in United States, based in Los Altos, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1962, 64 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending May 2024, Assistance League of Los Altos reported income of $151k and spending of $185k, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2020 to May 2024, income grew from $39k to $151k (+286%), an average of +40% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2022, when income rose by 140%. Over the whole period it spent 268% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Assistance League of Los Altos sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile, and in the 49th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Montana Medical Association Foundation ($151k), Medi for Help ($151k) and Gregory Hugh Montgomery Jr Foundation for Ultimate Growth Inc ($151k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending May 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 41% of the total. At year end it held assets of $868k against liabilities of $23k, net assets of $845k.

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.