Flights for Christ

Analysis

Flights for Christ is a registered charity in United States, based in Mount Vernon, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2011, 15 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, Flights for Christ reported income of $107k and spending of $65k, leaving 39% of income unspent that year. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $376k to $107k (-71%), an average of -47% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 80%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Flights for Christ sits at the 34th percentile: it is larger than about 34% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile, and in the 40th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ohio Boys Town Inc ($107k), Our Neighborhood Academy ($107k) and Muzira Ministries Inc ($107k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $112k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $112k.