Desert Sun Child Development Center

Analysis

Desert Sun Child Development Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Chandler, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1979, 47 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a school under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Desert Sun Child Development Center reported income of $856k and spending of $870k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $597k to $856k (+43%), an average of +9.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Desert Sun Child Development Center sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 74th percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Brinkley Heights Urban Academy ($855k), Pennsylvania Association of Independent Schools ($856k) and Mt Zion Ame Church New Brunswick Community Development Corporation ($855k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 45% and program service revenue 55% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $580k. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $350k, net assets of $740k. It reported 28 employees.