Accept the Challenge

Analysis

Accept the Challenge is a registered charity in United States, based in Phoenix, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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, Accept the Challenge reported income of $510k and spending of $518k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $511k to $510k (-0.2%), an average of -0.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 172%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Accept the Challenge sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Vivekananda Study & Philanthropic Center of New York USA Inc ($510k), Southwestern Ohio Instructional Technology Association Inc ($510k) and Kellsies Hope Foundation Inc NFP ($509k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $399 against liabilities of $0, net assets of $399.