Missionary Emergency Fund

Analysis

Missionary Emergency Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Richmond, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1950, 76 years ago. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Missionary Emergency Fund reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.1m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.4m to $1.2m (-11%), an average of -2.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 81%. Over the whole period it spent 74% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Missionary Emergency Fund sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Senior Citizen Housing Corporation of Scotch Plains ($1.2m), South Carolina Governors School for the Arts and Humanities Foundation ($1.2m) and Helping Hands of Georgetown ($1.2m).

At year end it held assets of $21.2m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $21.2m.