Helping Honduras Kids

Analysis

Helping Honduras Kids is a registered charity in United States, based in Woodland Park, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 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 2023, Helping Honduras Kids reported income of $279k and spending of $317k, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $403k to $279k (-31%), an average of -8.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Helping Honduras Kids sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 57th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Virtu ($279k), Friends of Rwandan Education Inc ($279k) and Kibale Uganda Development Union Inc ($279k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $102k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $102k.

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.