Kansas Policy Institute

Analysis

Kansas Policy Institute is a registered charity in United States, based in Wichita, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1969, 57 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Kansas Policy Institute reported income of $1.7m and spending of $2.0m, spending 119% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.5m to $1.7m (+16%), an average of +3.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 119%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Kansas Policy Institute sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Sherman Oaks Nursery School ($1.7m), Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies ($1.7m) and Lincoln Rotary Club Foundation ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $451k (22% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $582k. At year end it held assets of $2.7m against liabilities of $10k, net assets of $2.7m. It reported 11 employees.