Saint John of the Cross Teacher Recognition Trust

Analysis

Saint John of the Cross Teacher Recognition Trust is a registered charity in United States, based in Western SPRGS, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2025. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation (type ii) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2024, Saint John of the Cross Teacher Recognition Trust reported income of $736k and spending of $259k, leaving 65% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2024, income grew from $437k to $736k (+68%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income dropped by 170%. Over the whole period it spent 70% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Saint John of the Cross Teacher Recognition Trust sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% 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 MCF Gift Fund Inc ($735k), The Wesley Foundation Inc ($736k) and American Friends of Ayelet Hashachar ($735k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 8.0% of the total. At year end it held assets of $4.3m against liabilities of $223k, net assets of $4.1m.