Ripen with US Child Care Center Inc

Analysis

Ripen with US Child Care Center Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Buffalo, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 September 2023, Ripen with US Child Care Center Inc reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.5m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $1.0m to $1.5m (+46%), an average of +9.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2023, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Ripen with US Child Care Center Inc sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 80th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Alpha & Omega Nutrition Program Inc ($1.5m), Project Sage Inc ($1.5m) and Morgans Camp ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 7.4% and program service revenue 92% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $993k. At year end it held assets of $798k against liabilities of $462k, net assets of $336k. It reported 40 employees.