Brethren Community Ministries

Analysis

Brethren Community Ministries is a registered charity in United States, based in Harrisburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Brethren Community Ministries reported income of $158k and spending of $204k, spending 129% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $173k to $158k (-8.6%), an average of -8.6% a year. Over the whole period it spent 107% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Brethren Community Ministries sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 43% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile, and in the 46th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fueling Embers Youth Ministry ($158k), Open Door Pregnancy Center ($158k) and Jennings County Council on Domestic Violence Inc ($158k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 63% and program service revenue 28% of the total. At year end it held assets of $160k against liabilities of $5,255, net assets of $154k.