Purpose Medical Mission

Analysis

Purpose Medical Mission is a registered charity in United States, based in Lubbock, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2010, 16 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 (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, Purpose Medical Mission reported income of $81k and spending of $87k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $194k to $81k (-58%), an average of -35% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 70%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Purpose Medical Mission sits at the 29th percentile: it is larger than about 29% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 31st percentile, and in the 33rd percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Myanmar Foundation for Analytic Education Inc ($81k), Fundacion Esperanza Inc ($81k) and Ic-Haiti ($81k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 87% of the total. At year end it held assets of $273k against liabilities of $2,272, net assets of $271k.