Creative Alternatives Senior Citizen Opportunities

Analysis

Creative Alternatives Senior Citizen Opportunities is a registered charity in United States, based in Denver, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1984, 42 years ago. 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, Creative Alternatives Senior Citizen Opportunities reported income of $227k and spending of $213k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $222k to $227k (+2.5%), an average of +0.6% a year. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Creative Alternatives Senior Citizen Opportunities sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile, and in the 53rd percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Meeting Place Learning Center Inc ($227k), Northwest Montana Historical Society Inc ($227k) and Lowville Free Library ($227k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 64% and program service revenue 35% of the total. At year end it held assets of $475k against liabilities of $934k, net assets of -$459k.