Palm Springs Pathfinders

Analysis

Palm Springs Pathfinders is a registered charity in United States, based in Rancho Mirage, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1962, 64 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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 May 2024, Palm Springs Pathfinders reported income of $190k and spending of $210k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from May 2019 to May 2024, income fell from $250k to $190k (-24%), an average of -5.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2020, when income dropped by 46%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Palm Springs Pathfinders sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile, and in the 55th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ralph a Beebee Charitable TR ($190k), United Way of Kent County Inc ($190k) and Twin Falls Community Foundation Inc ($190k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending May 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 108% of the total. At year end it held assets of $279k against liabilities of $133, net assets of $278k.