Positive Choices

Analysis

Positive Choices is a registered charity in United States, based in Birmingham, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1991, 35 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 Choices reported income of $81k and spending of $101k, spending 124% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $61k to $81k (+33%), an average of +7.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 135%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Positive Choices sits at the 24th percentile: it is larger than about 24% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile, and in the 30th percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Autism Housing Pathways Inc ($81k), Kodawest ($81k) and Community Alliance Housing Corporation V ($81k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 88% of the total. At year end it held assets of $232k against liabilities of $768, net assets of $232k.