Center for the Missing

Analysis

Center for the Missing is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Center for the Missing reported income of $909k and spending of $893k, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $313k to $909k (+190%), an average of +30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 176%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Center for the Missing sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Children First Learning Center Foundation ($909k), Firstability Inc ($909k) and Better Business Bureau Foundation of El Paso ($909k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 110% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $62k (6.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $230k. At year end it held assets of $634k against liabilities of $37k, net assets of $597k. It reported 6 employees.