West Side Christian School

Analysis

West Side Christian School is a registered charity in United States, based in Grand Rapids, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1945, 81 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, West Side Christian School reported income of $4.5m and spending of $3.9m, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $3.1m to $4.5m (+46%), an average of +9.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, West Side Christian School sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Morristown and Morris Township Library Foundation ($4.5m), French River Education Center Inc ($4.5m) and William R Moore College of Technology ($4.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 30% and program service revenue 61% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $2.2m. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $13k, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 112 employees.