Lincoln Park Cooperative Nursery School

Analysis

Lincoln Park Cooperative Nursery School is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1951, 75 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, Lincoln Park Cooperative Nursery School reported income of $738k and spending of $754k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $800k to $738k (-7.8%), an average of -2.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Lincoln Park Cooperative Nursery School sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 75th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Heirloom Farmers Markets Inc ($738k), Illini Media Company ($739k) and Friends of Overland School ($738k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.7% and program service revenue 73% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $478k. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $540k, net assets of $742k. It reported 12 employees.