Optimal Child Development Center

Analysis

Optimal Child Development Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Compton, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1981, 45 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a church under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Optimal Child Development Center reported income of $1.0m and spending of $992k, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $731k to $1.0m (+44%), an average of +9.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 136%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Optimal Child Development Center sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 81st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hiinga ($1.0m), The Arc of Larimer County Inc ($1.0m) and Vital Connections Inc ($1.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $244k (25% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $238k. At year end it held assets of $729k against liabilities of $30k, net assets of $700k. It reported 17 employees.