Candlelighters for Childhood Cancer

Analysis

Candlelighters for Childhood Cancer is a registered charity in United States, based in Las Vegas, NV. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1979, 47 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, Candlelighters for Childhood Cancer reported income of $2.4m and spending of $2.1m, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.5m to $2.4m (+66%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Candlelighters for Childhood Cancer sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within NV. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Roseland Ceasefire Project Inc ($2.4m), Mental Health America of Greater Houston Inc ($2.4m) and AIDS Legal Referral Panel of the San Francisco Bay Area ($2.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $136k (6.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $579k. At year end it held assets of $4.8m against liabilities of $2.2m, net assets of $2.6m. It reported 15 employees.