P E O Star Scholarship

Analysis

P E O Star Scholarship is a registered charity in United States, based in Des Moines, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2010, 16 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 June 2024, P E O Star Scholarship reported income of $3.0m and spending of $2.5m, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income grew from $2.6m to $3.0m (+16%), an average of +3.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, P E O Star Scholarship sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Santa Barbara Education Foundation ($3.0m), Chelsea Academy Inc ($3.0m) and Indiana Congress of Parents and Teachers Inc ($3.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 88% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $51k. At year end it held assets of $9.5m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $9.5m.