Bright Path Center

Analysis

Bright Path Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Riverside, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 June 2023, Bright Path Center reported income of $410k and spending of $422k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $251k to $410k (+63%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income rose by 148%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Bright Path Center sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Greenville Avenue Child Development Center ($410k), Mary McLeod-Bethune Intervention & Enrichment Center ($410k) and Koins for Kenya Inc ($410k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 18% and program service revenue 82% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $43k. At year end it held assets of $5,171 against liabilities of $0, net assets of $5,171. It reported 2 employees.

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.