Better Choices Inc

Analysis

Better Choices Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Redding, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2003, 23 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, Better Choices Inc reported income of $479k and spending of $571k, spending 119% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $952k to $479k (-50%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 30%. 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, Better Choices Inc sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 71st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Korea Town Senior and Community Center Inc ($479k), Sowhope Org ($479k) and Greater Attleboro Area Council for Children Inc ($479k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.3% and program service revenue 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $128k against liabilities of $19k, net assets of $109k. It reported 6 employees.