Rugged Cross Baptist Church

Analysis

Rugged Cross Baptist Church is a registered charity in United States, based in Brooklyn, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1990, 36 years ago. The IRS classifies it as a church under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Rugged Cross Baptist Church reported income of $246k and spending of $232k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $197k to $246k (+25%), an average of +5.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Rugged Cross Baptist Church sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile, and in the 55th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Association for the Rights of Citizens with Handicaps Inc ($246k), Adult Christian Education Foundation Inc ($246k) and Association for Macular Diseases Inc ($246k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $6,500. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $25k, net assets of $1.2m.