Come Lets Dance

Analysis

Come Lets Dance is a registered charity in United States, based in Lakewood, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2007, 19 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, Come Lets Dance reported income of $64k and spending of $72k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $78k to $64k (-17%), an average of -4.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 45%. 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, Come Lets Dance sits at the 23rd percentile: it is larger than about 23% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 25th percentile, and in the 22nd percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lighthouse Border Missions Inc ($64k), Liberian Assistance Program Inc ($64k) and Global Partners in Mission Inc ($64k).

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 $63k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $63k.

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.