Educate the Children

Analysis

Educate the Children is a registered charity in United States, based in Naples, FL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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, Educate the Children reported income of $84k and spending of $99k, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $66k to $84k (+28%), an average of +6.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 124%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Educate the Children sits at the 30th percentile: it is larger than about 30% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile, and in the 36th percentile within FL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hospitals for Humanity Inc ($84k), Hoshyar Foundation ($84k) and Power of Education Foundation ($84k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 84% of the total. At year end it held assets of $301k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $301k.