Community School

Analysis

Community School is a registered charity in United States, based in Roanoke, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1971, 55 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 July 2023, Community School reported income of $2.0m and spending of $1.6m, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2019 to July 2023, income grew from $1.6m to $2.0m (+26%), an average of +5.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2020, when income rose by 21%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, 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 86th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Imagine Lone Star International Academy ($2.0m), Bertie Educational Foundation Inc ($2.0m) and Northern California Valley Sheet Metal Industry Joint Apprenticeshi ($2.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending July 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 17% and program service revenue 77% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.0m. At year end it held assets of $3.6m against liabilities of $1.0m, net assets of $2.5m. It reported 54 employees.