Countryside Ministries

Analysis

Countryside Ministries is a registered charity in United States, based in Seven Hills, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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 December 2023, Countryside Ministries reported income of $81k and spending of $98k, spending 121% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $86k to $81k (-6.8%), an average of -2.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 116%. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Countryside Ministries sits at the 28th percentile: it is larger than about 28% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 31st percentile, and in the 32nd percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Healing Hands for India Corporation ($80k), South Central Rotary Youth Exchange Inc ($81k) and Samaritans Heart International Inc ($80k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $7,950 against liabilities of $0, net assets of $7,950.

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.