Build a Miracle

Analysis

Build a Miracle is a registered charity in United States, based in San Diego, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Build a Miracle reported income of $2.3m and spending of $2.1m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.9m to $2.3m (+17%), an average of +4.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Build a Miracle sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chillicothe-Ross Community Foundation Inc ($2.3m), Legacy a Regional Community Foundation ($2.3m) and Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees ($2.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% and program service revenue 0.1% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $33k, net assets of $1.6m.