Alternatives for Better Living

Analysis

Alternatives for Better Living is a registered charity in United States, based in Napa, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1999, 27 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 June 2023, Alternatives for Better Living reported income of $1.8m and spending of $1.7m, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $817k to $1.8m (+115%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 71%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Alternatives for Better Living sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Alliance for Paired Donation Inc ($1.8m), LA Vie Center ($1.8m) and Health Outreach Prevention Education Inc ($1.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 88% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.0m. At year end it held assets of $376k against liabilities of $133k, net assets of $243k. It reported 30 employees.