Santa Lucia School

Analysis

Santa Lucia School is a registered charity in United States, based in Templeton, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1997, 29 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 June 2023, Santa Lucia School reported income of $377k and spending of $395k, spending 105% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $274k to $377k (+38%), an average of +8.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 69%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Santa Lucia School sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Valley Parent Preschool ($377k), Wolverine Hoosier Athletic Conference Inc ($377k) and Castle Pines Scholarship Foundation Inc ($377k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 7.1% and program service revenue 86% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $328k. At year end it held assets of $517k against liabilities of $346k, net assets of $171k.

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.