New Directions for People with Disabilities Inc

Analysis

New Directions for People with Disabilities Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Barbara, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1988, 38 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 September 2023, New Directions for People with Disabilities Inc reported income of $1.8m and spending of $1.7m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income fell from $2.3m to $1.8m (-23%), an average of -6.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income rose by 80%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, New Directions for People with Disabilities Inc sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Southern New Mexico Outreach Inc ($1.8m), Common Heart Inc ($1.8m) and Living Pono Project ($1.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 31% and program service revenue 63% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $349k. At year end it held assets of $3.2m against liabilities of $1.8m, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 13 employees.