Secure Beginnings

Analysis

Secure Beginnings is a registered charity in United States, based in Ojai, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Secure Beginnings reported income of $246k and spending of $223k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $253k to $246k (-2.7%), an average of -0.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Secure Beginnings sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile, and in the 60th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Heritage Event and Arts Center Inc ($246k), Evolutionary Arts Life Foundation Inc ($246k) and Oconomowoc Silver Streak Inc ($246k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 79% and program service revenue 17% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $119k. At year end it held assets of $249k against liabilities of $1,486, net assets of $247k. It reported 14 employees.