Journeys Counseling Ministry

Analysis

Journeys Counseling Ministry is a registered charity in United States, based in Costa Mesa, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Journeys Counseling Ministry reported income of $2.7m and spending of $2.6m, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.4m to $2.7m (+86%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Journeys Counseling Ministry sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Life Centers Inc ($2.6m), Bringing Hope Home Inc ($2.7m) and Little Sisters of the Poor of Cincinnati ($2.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 11% and program service revenue 89% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $542k (21% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.5m. At year end it held assets of $670k against liabilities of $24k, net assets of $645k. It reported 59 employees.