Tennessee Prison Outreach Ministry

Analysis

Tennessee Prison Outreach Ministry is a registered charity in United States, based in Nashville, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. 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, Tennessee Prison Outreach Ministry reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.4m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.4m (+36%), an average of +8.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Tennessee Prison Outreach Ministry sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 84th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Connectfamilias Inc ($1.4m), Restoration61 ($1.4m) and Childrens Advocacy Center of the South Plains Texas Inc ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 88% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $773k. At year end it held assets of $3.9m against liabilities of $1.4m, net assets of $2.5m. It reported 16 employees.