Bula Ministries

Analysis

Bula Ministries is a registered charity in United States, based in Visalia, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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, Bula Ministries reported income of $164k and spending of $148k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $117k to $164k (+40%), an average of +40% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Bula Ministries sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile, and in the 51st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cofa Creating Opportunities for All ($164k), Zimbabwe Mission Partnership Inc ($164k) and Loom International ($163k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $56k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $56k.