Adoption Associates Inc

Analysis

Adoption Associates Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Jenison, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2001, 25 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, Adoption Associates Inc reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.4m, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.8m to $1.3m (-29%), an average of -8.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 111% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Adoption Associates Inc sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hopehealth ($1.3m), West Central Child Care Connection Inc ($1.3m) and B I G Love Cancer Care Services ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.4% and program service revenue 94% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $249k (17% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $514k. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $41k, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 21 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.