Orange County Childrens Therapeutic Arts Center

Analysis

Orange County Childrens Therapeutic Arts Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Ana, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. 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 August 2023, Orange County Childrens Therapeutic Arts Center reported income of $2.2m and spending of $2.3m, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income grew from $1.4m to $2.2m (+54%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Orange County Childrens Therapeutic Arts Center sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Detroit Public Theatre ($2.2m), Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art ($2.2m) and Vertuelab ($2.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 92% and program service revenue 7.9% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.7m. At year end it held assets of $227k against liabilities of $212k, net assets of $15k. It reported 130 employees.