Tensas Academy

Analysis

Tensas Academy is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Joseph, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1995, 31 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 July 2023, Tensas Academy reported income of $1.4m and spending of $769k, leaving 47% of income unspent that year. Across the 3 years on record, from July 2020 to July 2023, income grew from $573k to $1.4m (+151%), an average of +58% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2023, when income rose by 77%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Tensas Academy 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 82nd percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include International Association for Continuing Education & Training ($1.4m), Prosper Education Foundation ($1.4m) and Pinellas Mycroschool Inc ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending July 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 44% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $304k. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 44 employees.