Experimental Station

Analysis

Experimental Station is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. 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, Experimental Station reported income of $3.2m and spending of $3.1m, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.7m to $3.2m (+94%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Experimental Station sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Innovation Network for Communities ($3.2m), Alternatives in Action ($3.2m) and Goodwill Industires of South Mississippi Inc ($3.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% and program service revenue 6.0% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $107k (3.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $557k. At year end it held assets of $2.0m against liabilities of $121k, net assets of $1.9m. It reported 23 employees.