Equipping the Persecuted

Analysis

Equipping the Persecuted is a registered charity in United States, based in Sioux City, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2020, 6 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, Equipping the Persecuted reported income of $1.0m and spending of $1.1m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $665k to $1.0m (+56%), an average of +56% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Equipping the Persecuted sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include March to the Top - Africa ($1.0m), Project Manana ($1.0m) and Ridge to Reefs Inc ($1.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2,018 against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2,018.