Empty Arms Outreach Ministries

Analysis

Empty Arms Outreach Ministries is a registered charity in United States, based in N Dinwiddie, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2004, 22 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, Empty Arms Outreach Ministries reported income of $419k and spending of $377k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $293k to $419k (+43%), an average of +9.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Empty Arms Outreach Ministries sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tri-Con Child Care Center Inc ($419k), Breast Cancer Think Tank Inc ($420k) and Crickets Hope Inc ($419k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.8% and program service revenue 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $11k (2.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $246k. At year end it held assets of $179k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $179k. It reported 12 employees.