Collaborative for Children

Analysis

Collaborative for Children is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1988, 38 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, Collaborative for Children reported income of $9.0m and spending of $7.9m, spending 88% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income fell from $12.3m to $9.0m (-27%), an average of -6.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Collaborative for Children sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Raleigh County Community Action Association Inc ($8.9m), Crooked Creek Food Pantry Inc ($9.0m) and Catholic Social Services of the Diocese of Scranton Inc ($8.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $524k (6.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.5m. It paid $28k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $7.1m against liabilities of $1.6m, net assets of $5.4m. It reported 125 employees.