Tender Care Childcare Preschool and Kindergarten

Analysis

Tender Care Childcare Preschool and Kindergarten is a registered charity in United States, based in Tupelo, MS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1998, 28 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 December 2023, Tender Care Childcare Preschool and Kindergarten reported income of $1.1m and spending of $1.1m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $456k to $1.1m (+141%), an average of +25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 131%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Tender Care Childcare Preschool and Kindergarten sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within MS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hilltop Community Childrens Center Inc ($1.1m), The Twig Cares Inc ($1.1m) and Community Culture for Va ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 14% and program service revenue 86% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $279k (25% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $414k. At year end it held assets of $718k against liabilities of $10k, net assets of $708k. It reported 39 employees.