Compassion Connection

Analysis

Compassion Connection is a registered charity in United States, based in Palm Desert, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2006, 20 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 2022, Compassion Connection reported income of $437k and spending of $314k, leaving 28% of income unspent that year. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2022, income grew from $248k to $437k (+76%), an average of +33% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 72% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Compassion Connection sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 70th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Nutrition and Education International ($436k), Quechua Benefit ($437k) and Ayiti Demen ($436k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $598k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $598k.