Touch Base Center for the Deafblind

Analysis

Touch Base Center for the Deafblind is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2016, 10 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, Touch Base Center for the Deafblind reported income of $109k and spending of $109k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $132k to $109k (-17%), an average of -17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Touch Base Center for the Deafblind sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile, and in the 42nd percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of the Brockton Council on Aging Inc ($109k), Uplift Foundation Inc ($109k) and Pomona Community Foundation ($109k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 20% and program service revenue 79% of the total. At year end it held assets of $36k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $36k.