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CHERISH OUR CHILDREN INC

EIN 76-0393617 HOUSTON, TX

Revenue 2024
$265,060
Expenses 2024
$291,626

Program services were 63.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q330
Classification
1000
Street
448 W 19TH ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Cherish Our Children Inc. (COCI) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to create sustainable solutions for vulnerable children. Historically, COCI has supported projects for vulnerable children around the world, but its most recent and notable program has focused on children of incarcerated parents. These services are provided through the Gaining Empowerment in Middle School (GEMS) program, the only program in Houston focused exclusively on middle school-aged children of incarcerated parents. The schools currently offering GEMS are in low-performing areas with student populations that are between 86-97% Black or Hispanic and are in communities where Census Bureau research predicts that 1-in-5 male students will be incarcerated as adults. All the students at the schools qualify for the federal free or reduced-price lunch program, 21% demonstrate limited English proficiency, and 60-73% of students are at risk of dropping out. GEMS provides in-school classes focusing on a

Activities or mission (Part I)

Dating back to its launch in 2021, The Gaining Empowerment in Middle School Program (GEMS) continues to gain momentum, as more schools are requesting our services at their campuses. During FY 2022, we purchased a new social, emotional learning software that is more user friendly. This new software offers our instructors additional resources for better classroom engagement, data assessment and reporting. The GEMS program has successfully and effectively provided social and emotional learning opportunities across 6 campuses, for 72 at-risk students and their families in the Houston Independent School District, Channelview Independent School District and Aldine School District. In addition to providing services to our youth, ancillary information and referral services are also provided to support the families of the participating students.

  • COCI has strategically refined and enhanced the Gaining Empowerment in Middle School (GEMS) program. It is the only program in Houston focused exclusively on middle school-aged children of incarcerated parents. GEMS provides curriculum-based, in-school classes focusing on a peer-to-peer, discussion-based model that emphasizes self-discovery and strengthens nine proven cognitive, social, and emotional skills sets to empower youth leadership. During FY 2022, we purchased a new social and emotional learning software that is more user-friendly. This software provides our instructors with additional resources to increase student engagement, as well as enhanced data assessment and reporting features. As a result, this software will further help the GEMS program become more operationally sound.Lastly, during 2022, the GEMS program successfully and effectively provided social and emotional learning opportunities across 6 campuses for 72 at-risk students and their families in the Houston Independent School District, Channelview Independent School District and Aldine Independent School District. In addition to providing services to our youth, ancillary information and referral support services to other community-based organizations was also provided to support the families of the participating students.

    Expenses $184,449 · Grants $30,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • ASHLEY ALLEN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • SHARON MILLS

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • DARRELL ROSENTHAL

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • EILEEN HAIROL

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • JACKIE GRANT

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • JENNIFER MCSORLEY

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • NICK FLORESCU

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • SYDNEY SCOTT

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • LETITIA QUINONES

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • JAMIE BALLARD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • BENJAMIN BERG

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • CONOR JOHNSTON

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • JACQUELYN REX TOBIN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • DWAYNE BENNET

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $265,060
    Expenses
    $291,626
    Contributions
    $171,916
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $343,966
    Expenses
    $415,187
    Contributions
    $232,876
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $454,614
    Expenses
    $397,907
    Contributions
    $462,852
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $504,755
    Expenses
    $410,339
    Assets (EOY)
    $382,804

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $426,283
    Expenses
    $347,481
    Assets (EOY)
    $287,513

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $441,735
    Expenses
    $438,286
    Assets (EOY)
    $58,811

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $409,610
    Expenses
    $372,188
    Assets (EOY)
    $55,886

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $231,161
    Expenses
    $287,376
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,464

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $277,172
    Expenses
    $274,382
    Assets (EOY)
    $81,056

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $234,487
    Expenses
    $228,655
    Assets (EOY)
    $83,057

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $242,757
    Expenses
    $208,335
    Assets (EOY)
    $66,803

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $242,529
    Expenses
    $207,035
    Assets (EOY)
    $67,675

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.