Alternative Living Inc

Analysis

Alternative Living Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Shalimar, FL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1988, 38 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, Alternative Living Inc reported income of $3.0m and spending of $2.9m, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.4m to $3.0m (+24%), an average of +5.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Alternative Living Inc 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 89th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within FL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include My Choice Foundation ($3.0m), Wide Horizons for Children Inc ($3.0m) and Randolph County Senior Adults Association Inc ($3.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 6.2% and program service revenue 74% of the total. At year end it held assets of $925k against liabilities of $580k, net assets of $345k. It reported 94 employees.