Rural Community Action Ministry

Analysis

Rural Community Action Ministry is a registered charity in United States, based in Leeds, ME. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1971, 55 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 June 2023, Rural Community Action Ministry reported income of $351k and spending of $346k, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $306k to $351k (+15%), an average of +3.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Rural Community Action Ministry sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile, and in the 60th percentile within ME. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Matthew 25 Thriftshop ($351k), Help Ukraine Now ($351k) and Angels Safe Haven Inc ($351k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 89% and program service revenue 5.5% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $153k. At year end it held assets of $741k against liabilities of $428k, net assets of $313k. It reported 8 employees.