Help a Child Benefit

Analysis

Help a Child Benefit is a registered charity in United States, based in Dike, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2018, 8 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, Help a Child Benefit reported income of $137k and spending of $136k, spending 99% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $125k to $137k (+9.8%), an average of +4.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Help a Child Benefit sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 45th percentile, and in the 48th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fred W Hooper Endowment Fund ($137k), McDonough County United Way ($137k) and Metal of Honor Fund ($137k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 49% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1,396 against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1,396.