Child Start Incorporated

Analysis

Child Start Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Napa, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a school under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Child Start Incorporated reported income of $16.6m and spending of $17.1m, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $17.1m to $16.6m (-2.7%), an average of -0.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Child Start Incorporated sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Army & Navy Academy ($16.6m), Arlington Classics Academy ($16.6m) and American Association of Community Colleges ($16.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% and program service revenue 0.3% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $251k (1.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $9.4m. At year end it held assets of $10.9m against liabilities of $4.1m, net assets of $6.8m. It reported 264 employees.