Bethlehem Early Learning Center

Analysis

Bethlehem Early Learning Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Ridgewood, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1941, 85 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a church under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Bethlehem Early Learning Center reported income of $968k and spending of $823k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $590k to $968k (+64%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 70%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Bethlehem Early Learning Center 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 82nd percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Girls Incorporated of Long Island ($968k), Montessori School of the Mahoning Valley ($968k) and We the People Public Schools ($968k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.5% and program service revenue 97% of the total. At year end it held assets of $965k against liabilities of $403k, net assets of $562k. It reported 60 employees.