For the Children Foundation

Analysis

For the Children Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Ana, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, For the Children Foundation reported income of $51k and spending of $70k, spending 135% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $49k to $51k (+5.8%), an average of +1.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 127%. Over the whole period it spent 156% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, For the Children Foundation sits at the 26th percentile: it is larger than about 26% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 20th percentile, and in the 22nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sanctuary Hill Foundation NFP ($51k), Nathalie & Theodore Jones Charitabl TR Fbo Church-Larger Fellowship ($51k) and Brandon C Gromada Head and Neck Cancer Foundation ($51k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 24% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.0m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.0m.