Keep a Child Alive

Analysis

Keep a Child Alive is a registered charity in United States, based in New York, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, Keep a Child Alive reported income of $833k and spending of $2.5m, spending 295% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.8m to $833k (-71%), an average of -26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 138%. Over the whole period it spent 55% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Keep a Child Alive sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Palm House Inc ($832k), Ohio Peer Recovery Organizations ($833k) and Prostate Cancer Research Institute ($832k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 347% of the total. At year end it held assets of $9.1m against liabilities of $89k, net assets of $9.0m.