Ellis Center for Educational Excellence

Analysis

Ellis Center for Educational Excellence is a registered charity in United States, based in Phoenix, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending March 2023, Ellis Center for Educational Excellence reported income of $2.5m and spending of $2.4m, spending 98% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from March 2020 to March 2023, income grew from $1.5m to $2.5m (+71%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2021, when income rose by 170%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Ellis Center for Educational Excellence sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mason Tenders Training Fund ($2.5m), Montessori School of Louisville Inc ($2.5m) and Paradigm School System Inc ($2.5m).

At year end it held assets of $39.4m against liabilities of $170k, net assets of $39.2m.