Public Education Partners

Analysis

Public Education Partners is a registered charity in United States, based in Greenville, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Public Education Partners reported income of $782k and spending of $1.0m, spending 130% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $1.1m to $782k (-30%), an average of -8.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 95%. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Public Education Partners sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 80th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include West Virginia School Boards ($782k), Mapleton Education Foundation ($782k) and Cristo Rey Birmingham Work Study ($781k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $113k (11% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $337k. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $129k, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 8 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.