Institute for Personal Change

Analysis

Institute for Personal Change is a registered charity in United States, based in Palo Alto, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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 August 2024, Institute for Personal Change reported income of $102k and spending of $115k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from August 2023 to August 2024, income grew from $51k to $102k (+98%), an average of +98% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2024, when income rose by 98%. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Institute for Personal Change sits at the 28th percentile: it is larger than about 28% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 37th percentile, and in the 40th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hope in the One ($102k), North American Society for the Study of Celiac Disease Inc ($102k) and Sinai Mitzvah Foundation Inc ($102k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending August 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 14% and program service revenue 85% of the total. At year end it held assets of $11k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $11k.