Reach the Children Inc

Analysis

Reach the Children Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Fairport, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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 December 2023, Reach the Children Inc reported income of $249k and spending of $309k, spending 124% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $181k to $249k (+38%), an average of +8.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 72%. Over the whole period it spent 115% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Reach the Children Inc 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 58th percentile, and in the 55th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chiraj Inc ($249k), Esperanza International Inc ($249k) and Friends of Haiti in New York Corp ($249k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $34k against liabilities of $575k, net assets of -$541k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.