Douglas County Child Development Association

Analysis

Douglas County Child Development Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Lawrence, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1981, 45 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 August 2023, Douglas County Child Development Association reported income of $1.6m and spending of $1.7m, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $1.6m (+35%), an average of +7.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2021, when income rose by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Douglas County Child Development Association sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Resource Center for Parents & Children ($1.6m), Big Creek Missions ($1.6m) and Hope Center Foundation ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 84% and program service revenue 16% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $849k. At year end it held assets of $347k against liabilities of $172k, net assets of $175k. It reported 36 employees.