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VARIETY-THE CHILDRENS CHARITY INTERNATIONAL

EIN 47-6036143 FRANKLIN, TN

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Revenue 2024
$622,045
Expenses 2024
$716,672

Program services were 81.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q123
Classification
1000
Street
2000 MALLORY LN STE 130 PMB 70

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

We empower children who are sick, disadvantaged, or living with disabilities through life-changing programs that provide medical care, mobility, education, and support to live without limits.

  • ALL CHILDREN ARE SPECIAL. HOWEVER, VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITYS PURPOSE IS TO SERVE CHILDREN WHO ARE LESS FORTUNATE CHILDREN WHO LIVE AND GROW UP WITH A SERIOUS ILLNESS, DISABILITY OR DISADVANTAGE. THESE ARE EXTRA SPECIAL CHILDREN WHO REQUIRE A SPECIAL KIND OF HELP. THAT HELP IS YOU AND VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY. UNDER FOUR CORE PROGRAMS VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY DELIVERS ON ITS PROMISE TO PROVIDE A FUTURE WITHOUT LIMITS FOR EVERY CHILD, REGARDLESS OF THEIR BACKGROUND OR ABILITY, AND TO BE THE MOST TRUSTED AND EFFECTIVE CHILDRENS CHARITY IN THE WORLD. 1.VARIETYS CARE PROGRAM DELIVERS CRITICAL LIFE-SAVING MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES, HEALTHCARE AND WELL-BEING TO INDIVIDUAL CHILDREN AND CHILDRENS HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS. 2.VARIETYS FREEDOM PROGRAM DELIVERS VITAL LIFE-CHANGING EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES FOR MOBILITY, INDEPENDENCE AND SOCIAL INCLUSION TO INDIVIDUAL CHILDREN AND CHILDRENS ORGANIZATIONS. 3.VARIETYS FUTURE PROGRAM DELIVERS CRUCIAL LIFE-ENRICHING COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES, EDUCATION AND SELF-ESTEEM TO INDIVIDUAL CHILDREN AND CHILDRENS ORGANIZATIONS. 4.VARIETYS INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS FUND DELIVERS IMPERATIVE MOBILITY EQUIPMENT FOR CHILDREN IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. UNLIKE MOST CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS THAT FOCUS ON A SINGLE AREA PROBLEM OR ISSUE, VARIETY FOCUSES ON MULTIPLE UNMET NEEDS OF CHILDREN WHO ARE SICK, DISADVANTAGED OR LIVE WITH DISABILITIES AND OTHER SPECIAL NEEDS AT A LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVEL. OUR AIM IS TO MAXIMIZE THE REAL, LONG-TERM POSITIVE SOCIAL IMPACT FOR ALL CHILDREN.

    Expenses $580,684 · Grants $165,000

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.

  • Caylen Santos

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $106,977
    From this org
    $106,977
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Steve Zuehlke

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Joshua Eidson

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Lisa Cefali

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Tushar Prabhu

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • David Small

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Howard Blank

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Belinda Judson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • John Dennis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Matt Maudlin

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $622,045
    Expenses
    $716,672
    Contributions
    $82,009
    Grants paid
    $165,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $551,524
    Expenses
    $481,706
    Contributions
    $20,155
    Grants paid
    $5,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $629,720
    Expenses
    $374,720
    Contributions
    $24,424
    Grants paid
    $10,500

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
    $668,253
    Expenses
    $295,966
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,849,829
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $570,532
    Expenses
    $365,296
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,739,833
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $509,886
    Expenses
    $540,443
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,481,072
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $711,570
    Expenses
    $637,449
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,478,898
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $754,836
    Expenses
    $730,650
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,430,520
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $923,676
    Expenses
    $904,815
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,439,161
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,053,486
    Expenses
    $868,874
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,442,738
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,149,726
    Expenses
    $964,183
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,326,519
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,269,710
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,309,486
  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $971,977
    Assets (EOY)
    $850,459

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • VARIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA

    $7,500

    2022 UKRAINE CHILDREN SUPPORT

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Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.