Wilma and the Messengers Ministries

Analysis

Wilma and the Messengers Ministries is a registered charity in United States, based in Florissant, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Wilma and the Messengers Ministries reported income of $98k and spending of $73k, leaving 26% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $325k to $98k (-70%), an average of -26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 77%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Wilma and the Messengers Ministries sits at the 42nd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 36th percentile, and in the 34th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rotary Club of Palatine Foundation ($98k), Faulk Foundation ($98k) and Drew Michael Taylor Foundation ($98k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $321k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $321k. It reported 7 employees.