Unified School District 489 Foundation for Educational Excel

Analysis

Unified School District 489 Foundation for Educational Excel is a registered charity in United States, based in Hays, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1989, 37 years ago. 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, Unified School District 489 Foundation for Educational Excel reported income of $231k and spending of $171k, leaving 26% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $166k to $231k (+39%), an average of +8.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Unified School District 489 Foundation for Educational Excel sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 56th percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Little League Baseball Inc ($231k), Georgia State Patrol Historical Society Inc ($231k) and National Social Science Honor Society Pi Gamma Mu Inc ($231k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $332k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $332k.