Bear Be a Resource for CPS Kids

Analysis

Bear Be a Resource for CPS Kids is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1997, 29 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 September 2023, Bear Be a Resource for CPS Kids reported income of $2.5m and spending of $2.7m, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $919k to $2.5m (+167%), an average of +28% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2020, when income rose by 189%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Bear Be a Resource for CPS Kids sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Help Center Inc ($2.5m), Congolese Integration Network Inc ($2.5m) and Americas Committee for Treatment & Research in Multiple Sclerosis Inc ($2.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $468k. At year end it held assets of $3.1m against liabilities of $731k, net assets of $2.4m.