The Learning Collaborative

Analysis

The Learning Collaborative is a registered charity in United States, based in Charlotte, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1990, 36 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, The Learning Collaborative reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.2m, spending 88% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2024, income grew from $893k to $1.4m (+56%), an average of +9.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, The Learning Collaborative sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bridges Educational Foundation Inc ($1.4m), Hope Protestant Reformed School for Christian Instruction ($1.4m) and Kalamazoo Plumbing & Pipefitting Training Fund Plan & TR ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $84k (6.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $572k. At year end it held assets of $2.3m against liabilities of $61k, net assets of $2.3m. It reported 18 employees.