Northwest Ministry Conference

Analysis

Northwest Ministry Conference is a registered charity in United States, based in Woodinville, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1983, 43 years ago. 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 May 2023, Northwest Ministry Conference reported income of $84k and spending of $125k, spending 150% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2019 to May 2023, income fell from $236k to $84k (-64%), an average of -23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2021, when income dropped by 80%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Northwest Ministry Conference sits at the 32nd percentile: it is larger than about 32% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile, and in the 27th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chinese Academy of Cleveland Inc ($84k), Society for Lending Comforts to the Sick of the Township of Smithtown ($84k) and MC Ministries ($84k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending May 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 16% and program service revenue 84% of the total. At year end it held assets of $25k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $25k.

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.