Willa Road Childrens Center

Analysis

Willa Road Childrens Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Newark, DE. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2011, 15 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, Willa Road Childrens Center reported income of $426k and spending of $460k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $464k to $426k (-8.2%), an average of -2.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Willa Road Childrens Center sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 62nd percentile within DE. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Education Partnerships ($426k), Wayfaring Band Inc ($426k) and Harvest Seed Project Foundation ($426k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 88% and program service revenue 12% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $59k (13% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $314k. At year end it held assets of $6,451 against liabilities of $9,172, net assets of -$2,721. It reported 23 employees.

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.