Orenda Education

Analysis

Orenda Education is a registered charity in United States, based in Georgetown, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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 August 2023, Orenda Education reported income of $21.3m and spending of $19.4m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income grew from $17.4m to $21.3m (+23%), an average of +5.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2020, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Orenda Education sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 98th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Berks Community Health Center ($21.3m), Unity Ambulatory Surgery Center Inc ($21.3m) and Jennie M Melham Memorial Medical Center Inc ($21.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 11% and program service revenue 89% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $453k (2.3% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $10.4m. At year end it held assets of $80.3m against liabilities of $55.0m, net assets of $25.3m. It reported 319 employees.