Find the Children

Analysis

Find the Children is a registered charity in United States, based in Los Angeles, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1986, 40 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending August 2023, Find the Children reported income of $458k and spending of $519k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income fell from $617k to $458k (-26%), an average of -7.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income dropped by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Find the Children sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 71st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Borderland Rainbow Center ($457k), Roads of Hope Inc ($458k) and Social Advancement Group Inc ($457k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $58k (11% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $42k. It paid $217k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $130k against liabilities of $17k, net assets of $112k. It reported 2 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.