Shepower Leadership Academy

Analysis

Shepower Leadership Academy is a registered charity in United States, based in Bakersfield, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover youth development, which this site groups under children and youth development. 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, Shepower Leadership Academy reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.0m, spending 87% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $120k to $1.2m (+859%), an average of +112% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 190%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 14,332 United States charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, Shepower Leadership Academy sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dubuque Dream Center Inc ($1.2m), W & W Community Development Inc ($1.2m) and Boys & Girls Clubs of Barron County Inc ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $544k. At year end it held assets of $187k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $187k.