Big Red Barn Retreat

Analysis

Big Red Barn Retreat is a registered charity in United States, based in Blythewood, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 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 (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, Big Red Barn Retreat reported income of $2.1m and spending of $1.6m, leaving 23% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $359k to $2.1m (+474%), an average of +55% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 137%. Over the whole period it spent 63% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Big Red Barn Retreat sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tender Hearts Girls Home Inc ($2.1m), Clara White Mission Inc ($2.1m) and Brookings Area Transit Authority ($2.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 82% and program service revenue 15% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $276k. At year end it held assets of $3.1m against liabilities of $79k, net assets of $3.0m. It reported 8 employees.