Imagination Station Child Learning Center

Analysis

Imagination Station Child Learning Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Zeeland, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Imagination Station Child Learning Center reported income of $1.6m and spending of $1.6m, spending 105% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.4m to $1.6m (+16%), an average of +3.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 99%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Imagination Station Child Learning Center sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Idignity Inc ($1.6m), Friends of the Sharehouse Inc ($1.6m) and National Federation of Families for Childrens Mental Health Inc ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.0% and program service revenue 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $996k. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $803k, net assets of $606k. It reported 37 employees.