Specialized Language Development Center

Analysis

Specialized Language Development Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Portage, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1975, 51 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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 June 2023, Specialized Language Development Center reported income of $726k and spending of $1.0m, spending 138% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $901k to $726k (-19%), an average of -5.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Specialized Language Development Center sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 75th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rockville Centre Drug and Alcohol Abuse-Confide Inc ($726k), Willowbend Farms Inc ($727k) and Illinois Society of Dermatologyphysician Assistants ($726k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 47% and program service revenue 52% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $160k (16% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $543k. At year end it held assets of $376k against liabilities of $241k, net assets of $135k. It reported 103 employees.