Positive Directions-The Center for Prevention and Counseling Inc

Analysis

Positive Directions-The Center for Prevention and Counseling Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Westport, CT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1976, 50 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, Positive Directions-The Center for Prevention and Counseling Inc reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.4m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2023, income grew from $774k to $1.4m (+82%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Positive Directions-The Center for Prevention and Counseling Inc sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 81st percentile within CT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include W H Grove Home TR 360 8336036000 ($1.4m), Hospice of Marshall County Foundation Inc ($1.4m) and Eldercare Services Institute LLC ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 42% and program service revenue 54% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $119k (8.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $732k. At year end it held assets of $417k against liabilities of $184k, net assets of $233k. It reported 27 employees.