Back to Basic Outreach Ministries

Analysis

Back to Basic Outreach Ministries is a registered charity in United States, based in Buffalo, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religion-related, which this site groups under religion. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Back to Basic Outreach Ministries reported income of $1.8m and spending of $1.7m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.8m (+66%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 31,138 United States charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Back to Basic Outreach Ministries sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Hap Foundation Inc ($1.8m), Mansfield Mission Center Inc ($1.8m) and Kansas Methodist Foundation Inc ($1.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $384k against liabilities of $139k, net assets of $245k. It reported 56 employees.