Black Hills Christian Academy

Analysis

Black Hills Christian Academy is a registered charity in United States, based in Spearfish, SD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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 June 2024, Black Hills Christian Academy reported income of $943k and spending of $874k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2024, income grew from $685k to $943k (+38%), an average of +6.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 44%. 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, Black Hills Christian Academy sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile, and in the 79th percentile within SD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fort Wayne Montessori Association Inc ($942k), Learning Cooperative ($943k) and Industrial Arts Institute Inc ($942k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 9.9% and program service revenue 84% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $533k. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $313k, net assets of $946k. It reported 50 employees.