Positive Assistance

Analysis

Positive Assistance is a registered charity in United States, based in Orlando, FL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2015, 11 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 December 2023, Positive Assistance reported income of $15.5m and spending of $13.9m, spending 89% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $573k to $15.5m (+2612%), an average of +200% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 556%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Positive Assistance sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within FL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Oneida Medical Practice P C ($15.5m), Upper Valley Professional Corporation ($15.5m) and Houston Healthcare System Inc ($15.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.4% and program service revenue 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.4m. At year end it held assets of $4.3m against liabilities of $18k, net assets of $4.3m. It reported 32 employees.