Northstar School of Innovation & Leadership

Analysis

Northstar School of Innovation & Leadership is a registered charity in United States, based in Cleveland, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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 June 2023, Northstar School of Innovation & Leadership reported income of $5.8m and spending of $5.6m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $3.3m to $5.8m (+78%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Northstar School of Innovation & Leadership sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Alabama Aviation Education Center Incorporated ($5.8m), Darien Library Inc ($5.8m) and University of North Carolina Foundation Inc ($5.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.6m against liabilities of $3.5m, net assets of -$884k.