Westwood Involvement Supports Education

Analysis

Westwood Involvement Supports Education is a registered charity in United States, based in Los Angeles, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1988, 38 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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 July 2023, Westwood Involvement Supports Education reported income of $842k and spending of $878k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2019 to July 2023, income fell from $904k to $842k (-6.8%), an average of -1.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2023, when income rose by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Westwood Involvement Supports Education sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include St Margarets School Foundation ($841k), The Algebra Project Inc ($842k) and Skidompha Library Assoc ($841k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending July 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. At year end it held assets of $887k against liabilities of $23k, net assets of $864k.

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.