Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$332,831

Total expenses

$296,892

Contributions and grants received

$253,568

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$43,760

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$35,503

Total assets, end of year

$45,745

Total liabilities, end of year

$160,363

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

-$114,618

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$262,865

Management and general expenses

$31,195

Fundraising expenses

$2,832

Program service expenses (Part III)

$262,865

Program services were 88.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• Publishing - Applied Scholastics Spanish Lake advances education by training educators and others how to learn effectively through the application of simple but effective techniques called Study Technology. It publishes and sells an extensive library in multi-languages of educational books, training course manuals, educational posters, etc. These educational publications are sold to teachers, workforce development trainers, students, affiliate schools and the general public.

  Expenses $62,399 · Revenue $35,010

• Education & Literacy - Applied Scholastics Spanish Lake trains adult educators and students in its Applied Scholastics Educator Institute, a post-secondary, proprietary school certified with the Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development. While most training is conducted at the Institutes St Louis campus, some was delivered in countries such as Ghana and Liberia. Students learn how to: recognize and overcome learning barriers; work within classrooms with diverse levels of student competency; close the gaps in student academic achievement; tutor using specialized techniques for phonics, sight word repertoire, subject vocabulary and comprehension strategies.

  Expenses $148,366 · Revenue $44,253

• Public Awareness and Information Campaigns - One of Applied Scholastics Spanish Lakes principal programs is showing the public how they can overcome learning problems commonly encountered, through free workshops and seminars, educational pamphlets and booklets, newsletters and blogs.

  Expenses $52,100

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

10 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.2

Source object

202543149349304634

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