El Buen Pastor Fund

Analysis

El Buen Pastor Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Custer, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2002, 24 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 2021, El Buen Pastor Fund reported income of $125k and spending of $126k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2021, income fell from $263k to $125k (-52%), an average of -52% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, El Buen Pastor Fund sits at the 38th percentile: it is larger than about 38% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 43rd percentile, and in the 38th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include F&d West Fund ($125k), Higher Up Ministries ($125k) and Ray Halbritter Charity Classic Inc ($125k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2021, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $70k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $70k.