School of Service

Analysis

School of Service is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbia, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1973, 53 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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 December 2023, School of Service reported income of $310k and spending of $400k, spending 129% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $131k to $310k (+137%), an average of +33% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 65%. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, School of Service sits at the 48th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 59th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hillsboro Charitable Foundation Inc ($310k), Md1 Program Inc ($311k) and International Society of Dermatopathology ($310k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 31% and program service revenue 63% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $39k (9.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $189k. At year end it held assets of $353k against liabilities of $311k, net assets of $42k.

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.