Mennonite Friendship Communities Inc

Analysis

Mennonite Friendship Communities Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in S Hutchinson, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1974, 52 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, Mennonite Friendship Communities Inc reported income of $13.2m and spending of $11.8m, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $12.3m to $13.2m (+6.6%), an average of +1.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Mennonite Friendship Communities Inc sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Edgewood Summit Inc ($13.1m), TLC Child & Family Services ($13.2m) and Feeding Louisiana ($13.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 13% and program service revenue 86% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $291k (2.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $5.5m. At year end it held assets of $12.2m against liabilities of $12.2m, net assets of -$15k. It reported 280 employees.