A Place to Start Inc

Analysis

A Place to Start Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Kennebunk, ME. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, 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 December 2023, A Place to Start Inc reported income of $152k and spending of $179k, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $107k to $152k (+42%), an average of +42% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 124% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, A Place to Start Inc sits at the 36th percentile: it is larger than about 36% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile, and in the 41st percentile within ME. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Angels of Mercy Inc ($152k), Wny Ovarian Cancer Project Inc ($152k) and Open Doors Outdoors ($152k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 79% of the total. At year end it held assets of $308k against liabilities of $3,612, net assets of $305k.