Northern Star Transportation

Analysis

Northern Star Transportation is a registered charity in United States, based in Free Soil, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Northern Star Transportation reported income of $1.1m and spending of $1.1m, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.0m to $1.1m (+12%), an average of +2.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Northern Star Transportation sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 81st percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Connected Chef Foundation Inc ($1.1m), Buena Vista Child Care Inc ($1.1m) and Survivor Ventures ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $332k. At year end it held assets of $188k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $188k. It reported 9 employees.