Welfare League

Analysis

Welfare League is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Rosa, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1952, 74 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 December 2023, Welfare League reported income of $258k and spending of $302k, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $219k to $258k (+18%), an average of +4.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 119%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Welfare League sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 61st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Quabbin Mediation Inc ($258k), Operation143 ($258k) and Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund ($257k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 2.9% and program service revenue 95% of the total. At year end it held assets of $530k against liabilities of $1,555, net assets of $528k.