Wilberforce University

Analysis

Wilberforce University is a registered charity in United States, based in Wilberforce, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1937, 89 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 June 2023, Wilberforce University reported income of $12.2m and spending of $16.1m, spending 132% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $16.9m to $12.2m (-28%), an average of -7.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 139%. Over the whole period it spent 77% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Wilberforce University sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Peabody Charter School Inc ($12.2m), High Tech High Graduate School of Education ($12.2m) and Ravenswood Education Foundation ($12.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 65% and program service revenue 33% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $6.8m. At year end it held assets of $26.2m against liabilities of $14.8m, net assets of $11.4m. It reported 226 employees.