Carrington Youth Center

Analysis

Carrington Youth Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Carrington, ND. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1991, 35 years ago. Its declared purposes cover youth development, which this site groups under children and youth development. 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, Carrington Youth Center reported income of $125k and spending of $146k, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $123k to $125k (+1.4%), an average of +0.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 116% of the income it received.

Among 14,332 United States charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, Carrington Youth Center sits at the 48th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 43rd percentile, and in the 34th percentile within ND. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions Incorporated ($125k), Reno Toy Run ($125k) and PGR Foundation Inc ($125k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 15% and program service revenue 58% of the total. At year end it held assets of $453k against liabilities of $1,388, net assets of $451k. It reported 14 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.