Tri-State Educational Foundation

Analysis

Tri-State Educational Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Iuka, MS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1999, 27 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 September 2023, Tri-State Educational Foundation reported income of $1.8m and spending of $1.5m, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $683k to $1.8m (+164%), an average of +28% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2021, when income rose by 77%. Over the whole period it spent 68% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Tri-State Educational Foundation sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within MS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Religious Freedom Institute Inc ($1.8m), Cambridge Academy ($1.8m) and Ohio Construction Academy ($1.8m).

Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $900 (0.1% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $65k. At year end it held assets of $2.7m against liabilities of $203k, net assets of $2.5m. It reported 24 employees.