Institute of Positive Education

Analysis

Institute of Positive Education is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1974, 52 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 December 2023, Institute of Positive Education reported income of $876k and spending of $893k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $594k to $876k (+47%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Institute of Positive Education sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Edith Kanakaole Foundation ($876k), Ctr Incorporated ($876k) and Carroll Independent School District Band Boosters ($876k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 68% and program service revenue 4.2% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $213k. At year end it held assets of $993k against liabilities of $336k, net assets of $658k. It reported 5 employees.