Parents for Alternate Support Solutions

Analysis

Parents for Alternate Support Solutions is a registered charity in United States, based in Portland, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1998, 28 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, Parents for Alternate Support Solutions reported income of $1.7m and spending of $1.5m, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.3m to $1.7m (+33%), an average of +7.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Parents for Alternate Support Solutions sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include G3 Ministries for the Church Inc ($1.7m), 4 Kids 2 Kids ($1.7m) and Gleneayre Equestrian Program Inc ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.2% and program service revenue 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.0m. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $521k, net assets of $783k. It reported 52 employees.