Christian East African & Equatorial Development Trust

Analysis

Christian East African & Equatorial Development Trust is a registered charity in United States, based in Sewickley, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2001, 25 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 June 2023, Christian East African & Equatorial Development Trust reported income of $365k and spending of $431k, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $60k to $365k (+504%), an average of +57% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 942%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Christian East African & Equatorial Development Trust sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Apparent Project ($364k), Christ Gift Academies Inc ($365k) and N2n Unlimited ($364k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% of the total. At year end it held assets of $224k against liabilities of $3,326, net assets of $220k.