Good Samaritan Rescue Mission

Analysis

Good Samaritan Rescue Mission is a registered charity in United States, based in Corp Christi, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1968, 58 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Good Samaritan Rescue Mission reported income of $1.7m and spending of $1.8m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $1.7m to $1.7m (+2.9%), an average of +0.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Good Samaritan Rescue Mission sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Helping Others to Live Inc ($1.7m), First Friends Daycare Inc ($1.7m) and Feed My Sheep Inc ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 61% and program service revenue 39% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $159k (8.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $699k. At year end it held assets of $793k against liabilities of $219k, net assets of $574k. It reported 239 employees.