Wesley Pines Conference Retreat & Camping Center

Analysis

Wesley Pines Conference Retreat & Camping Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Hazlehurst, MS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2024, 2 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religion-related, which this site groups under religion. 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, Wesley Pines Conference Retreat & Camping Center reported income of $1.4m and spending of $903k, leaving 34% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $677k to $1.4m (+103%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 68%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 31,138 United States charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Wesley Pines Conference Retreat & Camping Center sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 84th percentile within MS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mec Fund Inc ($1.4m), Tying Vines Inc ($1.4m) and Turning Point Ministries ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 61% and program service revenue 31% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $54k (6.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $289k. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $234k, net assets of $1.2m. It reported 43 employees.