Lindenwood Education System: $137.7M Revenue, $172.1M Expenses

Lindenwood Education System pulls a D on the efficiency rubric. The composite of 49/100 reflects below-median performance on the bundle of factors — typically driven by thin operating reserves, volatile revenue, or outsized officer compensation relative to organizational size.

Annual revenue at Lindenwood Education System runs $137.7M (2023), placing it among the larger U.S. nonprofits in the IRS Form 990 dataset. On the financial-health factor, Lindenwood Education System runs thin — assets relative to annual spending fall below the cushion nonprofit-finance experts typically recommend.

Five-year revenue trend is mildly negative: a modest decline that could reflect grant-cycle timing, donor turnover, or program wind-down. Worth checking against the program-spending pattern to see whether the decline is structural. Compensation for current officers and key employees runs $3.5M against $137.7M in revenue — within the band third-party charity raters typically consider reasonable for an organization of this size and complexity. This is an aggregate across all listed officers, not a single executive's salary. In the Education category, Lindenwood Education System sits alongside universities, K-12 systems, scholarship funds, and education-research organizations. Education-sector nonprofits often hold large endowments, which affects how the reserves-and-revenue figures should be read.