Cedar Ridge Christian School

Analysis

Cedar Ridge Christian School is a registered charity in United States, based in Cedar Falls, IA. 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 2023, Cedar Ridge Christian School reported income of $2.3m and spending of $2.4m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2023, income grew from $315k to $2.3m (+641%), an average of +172% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 782%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Cedar Ridge Christian School sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gem Prep Twin Falls LLC ($2.3m), Friends of the Pamlico County Public Library ($2.3m) and Foundation for Excellence Inc ($2.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 17% and program service revenue 82% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.0m. At year end it held assets of $956k against liabilities of $121k, net assets of $836k. It reported 101 employees.