Creative Directions Inc

Analysis

Creative Directions Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Burlington, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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 Directions Inc reported income of $3.0m and spending of $5.4m, spending 179% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $61k to $3.0m (+4789%), an average of +118% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2019, when income rose by 208%. Over the whole period it spent 142% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Creative Directions Inc sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include A G Rhodes Health & Rehab Management Inc ($3.0m), Flat Rock Community Services Inc ($3.0m) and Little Colorado Behavioral Health Center Inc ($3.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.4% and program service revenue 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $4.2m. At year end it held assets of $0 against liabilities of $2.2m, net assets of -$2.2m. It reported 30 employees.