Northern Lights Community School

Analysis

Northern Lights Community School is a registered charity in United States, based in Warba, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a school under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Northern Lights Community School reported income of $2.0m and spending of $1.9m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $2.3m to $2.0m (-13%), an average of -3.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Northern Lights Community School sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Lewis Chatman Academy ($2.0m), Explorations Inc ($2.0m) and Danville Library Inc ($2.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% and program service revenue 0.8% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $1.4m, net assets of $38k.