Big Creek Missions

Analysis

Big Creek Missions is a registered charity in United States, based in Bear Branch, KY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2008, 18 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, Big Creek Missions reported income of $1.6m and spending of $1.2m, leaving 25% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.0m to $1.6m (+64%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 79%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Big Creek Missions sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within KY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Douglas County Child Development Association ($1.6m), Lower Cape Fear Hospice Foundation Inc ($1.6m) and Resource Center for Parents & Children ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 50% and program service revenue 49% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $324k. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $6,336, net assets of $2.1m. It reported 39 employees.