Plumas Alternative Learning Services

Analysis

Plumas Alternative Learning Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Quincy, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a school under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Plumas Alternative Learning Services reported income of $5.7m and spending of $5.3m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $3.5m to $5.7m (+61%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Plumas Alternative Learning Services sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Orcid Inc ($5.7m), Columbus Preparatory and Fitness Academy ($5.7m) and Raising a Reader ($5.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% and program service revenue 7.2% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $115k (2.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.7m. At year end it held assets of $6.8m against liabilities of $4.0m, net assets of $2.8m. It reported 79 employees.