Fresh Approach

Analysis

Fresh Approach is a registered charity in United States, based in Concord, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, 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 December 2023, Fresh Approach reported income of $2.8m and spending of $3.1m, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.6m to $2.8m (+75%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 124%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Fresh Approach sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Senior Services of Van Buren County Inc ($2.8m), Nutrition Services Incorporated ($2.8m) and Suncoast Partnership to End Homelessness Inc ($2.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 43% and program service revenue 56% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.4m. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $385k, net assets of $1.3m. It reported 28 employees.