Equipping the Saints

Analysis

Equipping the Saints is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Fe, NM. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2000, 26 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, Equipping the Saints reported income of $436k and spending of $330k, leaving 24% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $849k to $436k (-49%), an average of -15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 64%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Equipping the Saints 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 66th percentile within NM. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Atonement Child Care Inc ($436k), Impact Compassion Center Tri-Cities ($437k) and Erath County Senior Citizens Inc ($436k).

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 $48k. At year end it held assets of $881k against liabilities of $4,012, net assets of $877k.