Balance 4 Kids

Analysis

Balance 4 Kids is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Cruz, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2002, 24 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, Balance 4 Kids reported income of $2.5m and spending of $2.4m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $3.2m to $2.5m (-21%), an average of -5.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Balance 4 Kids sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Call to Freedom Inc ($2.5m), Tennessee Disability Coalition ($2.5m) and Willamette Manor Inc ($2.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.5% and program service revenue 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $2.0m. At year end it held assets of $976k against liabilities of $196k, net assets of $780k. It reported 108 employees.