Grassroots Collaborative

Analysis

Grassroots Collaborative is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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, Grassroots Collaborative reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.2m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from September 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $544k to $1.3m (+136%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 213%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Grassroots Collaborative 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 82nd percentile, and in the 81st percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Catalyst for Educational Change ($1.3m), Pacific Community Charter School ($1.3m) and Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida Inc ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $89k (7.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $521k. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $77k, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 12 employees.