Belle Plaine Community School

Analysis

Belle Plaine Community School is a registered charity in United States, based in Belle Plaine, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1996, 30 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, Belle Plaine Community School reported income of $159k and spending of $131k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $126k to $159k (+26%), an average of +6.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 77%. Over the whole period it spent 76% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Belle Plaine Community School sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile, and in the 49th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Evermore Academy LLC ($159k), The Elizabeth Bowers Zambia Education Fund ($159k) and Asamblea Familiar Virgilio Davila Inc ($159k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 32% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.7m.