Tender Loving Care Center for Children

Analysis

Tender Loving Care Center for Children is a registered charity in United States, based in Port Arthur, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2008, 18 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 December 2023, Tender Loving Care Center for Children reported income of $3.2m and spending of $3.2m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.0m to $3.2m (+217%), an average of +33% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 212%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Tender Loving Care Center for Children sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Camphill Foundation ($3.2m), First Southwest Community Fund ($3.2m) and The Center for Violence Prevention ($3.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% and program service revenue 0.0% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $670k. At year end it held assets of $4.7m against liabilities of $2.8m, net assets of $1.9m. It reported 24 employees.