Ridge View Academy

Analysis

Ridge View Academy is a registered charity in United States, based in Denver, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2025. 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 2021, Ridge View Academy reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.8m, spending 152% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2021, income fell from $2.3m to $1.2m (-50%), an average of -30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income dropped by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 118% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Ridge View Academy sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 80th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Texas Programs for Alternative Education ($1.2m), Clemson Architectural Foundation ($1.2m) and East Martin Christian School ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2021, revenue came from contributions and grants 32% and program service revenue 61% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $1.0m against liabilities of $550k, net assets of $452k.

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.