Marriage Encounter Support Foundation

Analysis

Marriage Encounter Support Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Muscatine, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Marriage Encounter Support Foundation reported income of $280k and spending of $493k, spending 176% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $366k to $280k (-24%), an average of -6.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 162% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Marriage Encounter Support Foundation sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile, and in the 62nd percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Barrington Giving Day ($280k), Dustin Chamberlain Memorial Foundation Inc ($280k) and We Share Inc ($280k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 11% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $124k (25% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $124k. At year end it held assets of $7.0m against liabilities of $21k, net assets of $6.9m. It reported 6 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.