Committee to Benefit the Children

Analysis

Committee to Benefit the Children is a registered charity in United States, based in Ambler, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1982, 44 years ago. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending March 2023, Committee to Benefit the Children reported income of $168k and spending of $135k, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2019 to March 2023, income grew from $110k to $168k (+53%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 155%. Over the whole period it spent 78% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Committee to Benefit the Children sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile, and in the 47th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Northwest Citizens Patrol Inc ($168k), For Love of Children Inc ($168k) and Sheet Metal Workers Inter Assoc Scholarship Fund ($168k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending March 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 66% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $25k (18% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $968. At year end it held assets of $208k against liabilities of $5,440, net assets of $203k. It reported 2 employees.