Benchmark Adventure Ministries Incorporated

Analysis

Benchmark Adventure Ministries Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Nashville, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religion-related, which this site groups under religion. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Benchmark Adventure Ministries Incorporated reported income of $369k and spending of $340k, spending 92% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $293k to $369k (+26%), an average of +8.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 31,138 United States charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Benchmark Adventure Ministries Incorporated sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include From the Ground Up Ministries Inc ($369k), Hearing & Receiving Christ Ministries Inc ($369k) and Pinelow Park and Conference Center ($369k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 31% and program service revenue 67% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $64k (19% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $297k against liabilities of $4,743, net assets of $292k.