Christmas Connection Inc

Analysis

Christmas Connection Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Edmond, OK. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1984, 42 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 December 2023, Christmas Connection Inc reported income of $301k and spending of $372k, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from June 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $150k to $301k (+101%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 249%. Over the whole period it spent 139% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Christmas Connection Inc sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within OK. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Brendan Looney Foundation Inc ($301k), Crescent Food Bank ($301k) and After-School Childrens Enrichment Inc ($301k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 36% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $79k. It paid $36k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $594k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $594k. It reported 5 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.