Ywam Ships Orange County

Analysis

Ywam Ships Orange County is a registered charity in United States, based in Kailua Kona, HI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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, Ywam Ships Orange County reported income of $11.5m and spending of $11.4m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $14.2m to $11.5m (-18%), an average of -5.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 67%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Ywam Ships Orange County sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within HI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Iit Bombay Heritage Foundation ($11.5m), Mennonite Economic Development Associates ($11.6m) and Federation of American Scientists ($11.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 87% and program service revenue 13% of the total. At year end it held assets of $11.2m against liabilities of $10.2m, net assets of $929k.