Sending Light Ministries

Analysis

Sending Light Ministries is a registered charity in United States, based in Stockton, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2019, 7 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, Sending Light Ministries reported income of $63k and spending of $62k, spending 99% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $68k to $63k (-7.2%), an average of -2.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 93%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Sending Light Ministries sits at the 22nd percentile: it is larger than about 22% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 25th percentile, and in the 27th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Streatorland Community Food Pantry Inc ($63k), Sugarloaf Citizens Association Inc ($63k) and Josephs Storehouse of Hurricane Mills ($63k).

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 $979 against liabilities of $0, net assets of $979.