Change a Path

Analysis

Change a Path is a registered charity in United States, based in Piedmont, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a private non-operating foundation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2022, Change a Path reported income of $215k and spending of $241k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income fell from $318k to $215k (-32%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 193%. Over the whole period it spent 150% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Change a Path sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile, and in the 58th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Christian Counseling Associates Inc ($215k), The NC National Guard Soldiers and Airmen Assistance Fund Inc ($215k) and Pitch Your Peers Inc ($215k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 41% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.1m.

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.