Lake Bluff Parent Teacher Organization

Analysis

Lake Bluff Parent Teacher Organization is a registered charity in United States, based in Shorewood, WI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1998, 28 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 June 2024, Lake Bluff Parent Teacher Organization reported income of $59k and spending of $65k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from June 2022 to June 2024, income grew from $27k to $59k (+118%), an average of +48% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 100%. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Lake Bluff Parent Teacher Organization sits at the 25th percentile: it is larger than about 25% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 23rd percentile, and in the 20th percentile within WI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lafayette County Literacy Council ($59k), Louisiana Nursery Landscape Foundation for Scholarship and Res ($59k) and Blackhawk Retriever Club Inc ($59k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 36% and program service revenue 22% of the total. At year end it held assets of $50k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $50k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.