Choice in Aging

Analysis

Choice in Aging is a registered charity in United States, based in Pleasant Hill, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1982, 44 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, 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 June 2023, Choice in Aging reported income of $16.0m and spending of $6.4m, leaving 60% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $5.4m to $16.0m (+193%), an average of +31% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 144%. Over the whole period it spent 71% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Choice in Aging sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Grounded Solutions Network ($15.9m), Cedar Crest Inc ($16.0m) and A Safe Haven Foundation ($15.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 81% and program service revenue 15% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $129k (2.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $3.8m. At year end it held assets of $16.2m against liabilities of $1.4m, net assets of $14.8m. It reported 63 employees.