Mary Lee Johnston Community Learning Center

Analysis

Mary Lee Johnston Community Learning Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbia, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1955, 71 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 December 2023, Mary Lee Johnston Community Learning Center reported income of $638k and spending of $1.0m, spending 163% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $999k to $638k (-36%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 114% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Mary Lee Johnston Community Learning Center sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 71st percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Grace Renewing All Christian Education ($638k), Shawnigan USA Fund ($639k) and Melrose High School Permanent Scholarship Fund Organization ($638k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 56% and program service revenue 42% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $707k. At year end it held assets of $490k against liabilities of $20k, net assets of $469k. It reported 52 employees.

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.