Institute for Educational Studies

Analysis

Institute for Educational Studies is a registered charity in United States, based in Portland, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1988, 38 years ago. 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 December 2023, Institute for Educational Studies reported income of $153k and spending of $194k, spending 127% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $416k to $153k (-63%), an average of -22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Institute for Educational Studies sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile, and in the 48th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Orange Community Nursery School Inc ($153k), Salesian Monastic Community ($153k) and Timber Cove Volunteer Fire Department Inc ($153k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $88k against liabilities of $72k, net assets of $16k.

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.