Creative Play Center

Analysis

Creative Play Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Pleasant Hill, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1953, 73 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 July 2023, Creative Play Center reported income of $198k and spending of $192k, spending 97% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from July 2019 to July 2023, income fell from $327k to $198k (-39%), an average of -15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2023, when income rose by 111%. 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, Creative Play Center sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile, and in the 56th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Minnesota State High School Mathematics League ($198k), Pacific Model United Nations ($198k) and Camp Ramah in Wisconsin Endowment Corporation ($198k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending July 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 92% of the total. At year end it held assets of $256k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $256k.