Little Shepherds Learning Center

Analysis

Little Shepherds Learning Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Porter Ranch, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 December 2023, Little Shepherds Learning Center reported income of $2.5m and spending of $2.1m, spending 84% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.9m to $2.5m (+33%), an average of +7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Little Shepherds Learning Center sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Consumer Credit Counseling Foundation Inc ($2.5m), Patriots and Paws ($2.5m) and Unquity House Corporation ($2.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.2% and program service revenue 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.5m. At year end it held assets of $2.6m against liabilities of $146k, net assets of $2.5m. It reported 41 employees.