Westminster-Canterbury Child Care Center

Analysis

Westminster-Canterbury Child Care Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Richmond, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1991, 35 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 September 2023, Westminster-Canterbury Child Care Center reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.4m, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income fell from $1.8m to $1.2m (-31%), an average of -9.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2020, when income dropped by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Westminster-Canterbury Child Care Center sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Nasry Michelen Day Care Center Inc ($1.2m), Angels on Wheels Inc ($1.2m) and George Washington Carver Assn ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 4.9% and program service revenue 95% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $875k. At year end it held assets of -$102k against liabilities of $58k, net assets of -$161k. It reported 37 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.