Paradise for Living Services

Analysis

Paradise for Living Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Stone Mountain, GA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2014, 12 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, Paradise for Living Services reported income of $211k and spending of $281k, spending 134% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $581k to $211k (-64%), an average of -22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Paradise for Living Services sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile, and in the 59th percentile within GA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Springfield Soup Kitchen ($210k), Tu Casa Latina ($211k) and Power Safe Place Resource Center of Virginia ($210k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $123k. It paid $6,960 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $100k against liabilities of $538k, net assets of -$438k.

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.