Serve the Children

Analysis

Serve the Children is a registered charity in United States, based in Fircrest, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1997, 29 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, Serve the Children reported income of $247k and spending of $243k, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $404k to $247k (-39%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 51%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Serve the Children sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile, and in the 56th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Better World Education ($247k), A a Alumni FDN Inc ($247k) and Reading Is Fundamental of Northern Virginia Inc ($247k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 69% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $49k. At year end it held assets of $82k against liabilities of $4,181, net assets of $78k. It reported 2 employees.