Peterson Outdoors Ministries

Analysis

Peterson Outdoors Ministries is a registered charity in United States, based in Joplin, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2010, 16 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, Peterson Outdoors Ministries reported income of $428k and spending of $261k, leaving 39% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $462k to $428k (-7.3%), an average of -1.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 56% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Peterson Outdoors Ministries sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 65th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include A Lot of Good ($428k), Holmes Child Care Center Inc ($428k) and First Presbyterian Christian Preschool ($428k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $5,852. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $2,548, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 2 employees.