Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach

Analysis

Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach is a registered charity in United States, based in Memphis, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1986, 40 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach reported income of $13.3m and spending of $13.6m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $14.5m to $13.3m (-8.5%), an average of -2.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach 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 TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include One Family Illinois ($13.3m), The Baddour Center Inc ($13.3m) and Community Hope Inc ($13.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 89% and program service revenue 11% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $8.4m. At year end it held assets of -$3.1m against liabilities of $986k, net assets of -$4.1m. It reported 194 employees.