Birthday Dreams

Analysis

Birthday Dreams is a registered charity in United States, based in Renton, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2010, 16 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, Birthday Dreams reported income of $665k and spending of $602k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $389k to $665k (+71%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 83%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Birthday Dreams sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Building Intimate Marriages Inc ($665k), Ileihno Bopachemihn Inc ($665k) and Misty Meadows Mitey Riders Inc ($665k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 88% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $61k (10% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $215k. It paid $11k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $389k against liabilities of $185, net assets of $388k. It reported 8 employees.