Virginia Mennonite Relief Sale

Analysis

Virginia Mennonite Relief Sale is a registered charity in United States, based in Harrisonburg, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1996, 30 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 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, Virginia Mennonite Relief Sale reported income of $377k and spending of $367k, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $348k to $377k (+8.4%), an average of +2.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Virginia Mennonite Relief Sale sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 65th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Toulouse Commercial Inc ($377k), Thomas County Community Foundation Inc ($378k) and Paiges Butterfly Run Inc ($377k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 66% and program service revenue 10% of the total. At year end it held assets of $22k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $22k.