Salisbury Urban Ministries

Analysis

Salisbury Urban Ministries is a registered charity in United States, based in Salisbury, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1999, 27 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 church under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Salisbury Urban Ministries reported income of $265k and spending of $287k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $207k to $265k (+28%), an average of +6.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Salisbury Urban Ministries sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 59th percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Austin Lyric Opera Endowment Fund ($265k), Community Foundation for Oak Park ($265k) and Partners for Community ($264k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 89% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $69k (24% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $76k. At year end it held assets of $144k against liabilities of $12k, net assets of $132k. It reported 8 employees.