Cradles to Crayons, Inc.
Cradles to Crayons, Inc.
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About this organization
Mission
Founded in 2002, Cradles to Crayons® provides children from birth through age 12, living in homeless or low-income situations, with the essential items they need to thrive—at home, at school, and at play—for free. Cradles to Crayons collects and distributes new and high-quality used children’s goods by engaging and connecting communities. C2C sets a gold standard of individual, family, and corporate volunteer engagement, and through its “Giving Factories®” provides unique, hands-on opportunities to directly help local families. Headquartered in Boston, MA, C2C opened in Philadelphia in 2007, Chicago in 2016, and New York City via an innovative online platform, Giving Factory Direct (GFD), in 2020.
About
During the period April 1, 2018 through March 31, 2019, Cradles to Crayons provided approximately 280,000 packages of high quality everyday essential items to children living in low-income or homeless situations in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Illinois. This includes more than 100,000 customized 'C2C KidPacks' which are filled with clothing, shoes, books, toys and more. In order to collect these items, C2C engaged communities in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Illinois to host children's product drives on C2C's behalf. Donated items were sorted, inspected and packaged by more than 75,000 volunteers of all ages and walks of life. Packages were then picked up and delivered, at no cost, to the families C2C serves through collaborating with a network of social service partners.
Interesting data from their 2019 990 filing
The non-profit's mission, as described in the filing, is “Cradles to crayons provides children from birth through age 12, living in homeless or low-income situations, with the essential items they need to thrive at home, at school and at play. we supply these items free of charge by engaging and connecting communities.”.
When describing its duties, they were characterized as: “Cradles to crayons provides children from birth through age 12, living in homeless or low-income situations, with the essential items they need to thrive at home, at school and at play. we supply these items free of charge by engaging and connecting communities.”.
- The non-profit has complied with legal regulations by reporting their state of operation as MA.
- The filing shows that the non-profit's address as of 2019 is 155 NORTH BEACON STREET, BRIGHTON, MA, 02135.
- As of 2019, the non-profit has reported a total of 97 employees on their form.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is $7,306,179.
- The organization has 10 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 2002.
- The organization pays $5,507,424 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $1,599,260 in fundraising expenses.