Open Paths Counseling Center

Analysis

Open Paths Counseling Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Inglewood, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Open Paths Counseling Center reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.1m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $516k to $1.2m (+132%), an average of +23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 90%. Over the whole period it spent 78% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Open Paths Counseling Center sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Oconee Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc ($1.2m), Monadnock Area Peer Support Agency ($1.2m) and One Day at a Time Inc ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% and program service revenue 13% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $100k (8.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $516k. It paid $79k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $12k, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 15 employees.