Foundation for Personal and Spiritual Empowerment

Analysis

Foundation for Personal and Spiritual Empowerment is a registered charity in United States, based in LA Jolla, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religion-related, which this site groups under religion. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Foundation for Personal and Spiritual Empowerment reported income of $53k and spending of $59k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $219k to $53k (-76%), an average of -30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 1742%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 31,138 United States charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Foundation for Personal and Spiritual Empowerment 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 21st percentile, and in the 22nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Camp Timberledge Inc ($53k), Iglesia Evangelica Pentecostal Casa de Dios Puerta Del Cielo ($53k) and Sons of Encouragement Ministries Inc ($53k).

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 $2,037 against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2,037.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.