Connecting Champions

Analysis

Connecting Champions is a registered charity in United States, based in Pittsburgh, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2012, 14 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 (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, Connecting Champions reported income of $717k and spending of $512k, leaving 29% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $441k to $717k (+63%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 69% of the income it received.

Among 14,332 United States charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, Connecting Champions 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 75th percentile, and in the 74th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Girls Incorporated of Jacksonville ($717k), Boys & Girls Clubs of Cascade County ($718k) and Boys & Girls Club of Glacier Country ($717k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $114k (22% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $252k. At year end it held assets of $784k against liabilities of $24k, net assets of $760k. It reported 11 employees.