TLC the Learning Center

Analysis

TLC the Learning Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Charles City, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 June 2023, TLC the Learning Center reported income of $1.9m and spending of $2.0m, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2023, income grew from $468k to $1.9m (+299%), an average of +59% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 196%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, TLC the Learning Center sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Outlook Collaborative ($1.9m), Parenting Resource Center Inc ($1.9m) and Disabilities Rights Center - New Hampshire Inc ($1.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 29% and program service revenue 71% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $509k. At year end it held assets of $118k against liabilities of $171k, net assets of -$53k. It reported 50 employees.