Baja Bound Ministries Inc

Analysis

Baja Bound Ministries Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Chula Vista, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religion-related, which this site groups under religion. 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, Baja Bound Ministries Inc reported income of $1.9m and spending of $1.9m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $771k to $1.9m (+141%), an average of +25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 132%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 31,138 United States charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Baja Bound Ministries Inc sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Society for Classical Learning ($1.9m), Kby Congregations Together Inc ($1.9m) and Weaverland Financial Aid of Missouri Inc ($1.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. At year end it held assets of $58k against liabilities of $187k, net assets of -$129k. It reported 3 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.