Edmund Burke School

Analysis

Edmund Burke School is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1968, 58 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 2023, Edmund Burke School reported income of $16.0m and spending of $15.1m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $15.5m to $16.0m (+3.4%), an average of +0.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Edmund Burke School sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 91st percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Liberty Tradition Charter School ($16.0m), Shippensburg University Foundation ($16.0m) and Wesley International Academy Inc ($16.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 5.5% and program service revenue 92% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $494k (3.3% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $6.4m. At year end it held assets of $34.9m against liabilities of $16.9m, net assets of $18.0m. It reported 123 employees.