Strategies for Change

Analysis

Strategies for Change is a registered charity in United States, based in Sacramento, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1979, 47 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 (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Strategies for Change reported income of $114k and spending of $108k, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $2.7m to $114k (-96%), an average of -55% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income dropped by 84%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Strategies for Change sits at the 30th percentile: it is larger than about 30% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile, and in the 42nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Brooklyn Medical Relations Council Inc ($114k), Carroll County Substance Education Coalition ($114k) and Field Neuroscience Institute ($114k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.1% and program service revenue 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $946k, net assets of $659k.