LA Luz de Cristo Ministries Inc

Analysis

LA Luz de Cristo Ministries Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Trinity, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2011, 15 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, LA Luz de Cristo Ministries Inc reported income of $72k and spending of $140k, spending 194% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $294k to $72k (-75%), an average of -30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, LA Luz de Cristo Ministries Inc sits at the 26th percentile: it is larger than about 26% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 28th percentile, and in the 26th percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Saviour of the World Childrens Center Inc ($72k), Serbian National Defense Council of America ($72k) and Good People Global ($72k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 101% of the total. At year end it held assets of $113k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $113k.