Special Camps for Special Kids

Analysis

Special Camps for Special Kids is a registered charity in United States, based in Dallas, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1988, 38 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. 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, Special Camps for Special Kids reported income of $2.3m and spending of $2.6m, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.4m to $2.3m (-5.6%), an average of -1.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 115% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Special Camps for Special Kids sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Knox Inc ($2.3m), RRFT Enterprise ($2.3m) and Anchorage Gymnastics Association ($2.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 84% and program service revenue 16% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $192k (7.3% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $619k. At year end it held assets of $6.0m against liabilities of $296k, net assets of $5.7m. It reported 53 employees.