Baby Academy

Analysis

Baby Academy is a registered charity in United States, based in Calumet City, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Baby Academy reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.5m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $801k to $1.5m (+89%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 79% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Baby Academy sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Corpus Christi Area Council for the Deaf Inc ($1.5m), The Arc of Southwest Alabama ($1.5m) and Tifton Judicial Circuit Shelter Inc Ruths Cottages ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $56k (3.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $510k. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $300k, net assets of $1.3m.