Research for the Kids

Analysis

Research for the Kids is a registered charity in United States, based in Dubuque, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2019, 7 years ago. Its declared purposes cover medical research, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, Research for the Kids reported income of $339k and spending of $324k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $224k to $339k (+52%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 238%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Research for the Kids sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile, and in the 66th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Treatment Communities of America ($339k), Alliance Pregnancy Center ($339k) and Center for Health and Hope ($339k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $27k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $27k.