Positive Health Project

Analysis

Positive Health Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Brooklyn, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1996, 30 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 (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 Health Project reported income of $2.0m and spending of $1.7m, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $420k to $2.0m (+378%), an average of +48% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 320%. Over the whole period it spent 130% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Positive Health Project sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tallahatchie General Hospital Medical Foundation ($2.0m), Bread of Healing Inc ($2.0m) and Mainsail Health Partners ($2.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $360k. At year end it held assets of $600k against liabilities of $2.9m, net assets of -$2.3m. It reported 52 employees.