Big Fish Ministries

Analysis

Big Fish Ministries is a registered charity in United States, based in Foley, AL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Big Fish Ministries reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.5m, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.5m (+38%), an average of +8.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Big Fish Ministries sits at the 80th 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 87th percentile within AL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Saint Vincent de Paul of Palm Beach County Inc ($1.5m), Hillsdale County Agricultural ($1.5m) and Focusing Families ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $587k. At year end it held assets of $274k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $274k. It reported 19 employees.