Butman Methodist Camp and Retreat Center

Analysis

Butman Methodist Camp and Retreat Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Merkel, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2025. Its declared purposes cover religion-related, which this site groups under religion. The IRS classifies it as a church under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Butman Methodist Camp and Retreat Center reported income of $751k and spending of $747k, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $836k to $751k (-10%), an average of -2.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 102%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 31,138 United States charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Butman Methodist Camp and Retreat Center sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 80th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Casa Guadalupe Retreat House ($750k), Princess Belemzy Ministries ($751k) and Letourneau Christian Center Inc ($750k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 16% and program service revenue 87% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $54k (7.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $207k. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $14k, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 27 employees.