Great Plains Education Foundation Inc

Analysis

Great Plains Education Foundation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Aberdeen, SD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1979, 47 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a private non-operating foundation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Great Plains Education Foundation Inc reported income of $4.3m and spending of $3.9m, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $3.3m to $4.3m (+32%), an average of +7.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Great Plains Education Foundation Inc sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile, and in the 91st percentile within SD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Great Schools Partnership Inc ($4.3m), Morning Star Christian School ($4.4m) and Fitchburg State University Foundation Inc ($4.3m).

At year end it held assets of $35.9m against liabilities of $11.4m, net assets of $24.6m.