Martha and Mary Lutheran Services

Analysis

Martha and Mary Lutheran Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Poulsbo, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1986, 40 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 December 2023, Martha and Mary Lutheran Services reported income of $502k and spending of $539k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.3m to $502k (-61%), an average of -21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Martha and Mary Lutheran Services sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Intown Manchester Management Inc ($502k), Shootout for Soldiers Inc ($502k) and Volunteers of America Inc ($502k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $361k. At year end it held assets of $740k against liabilities of $24k, net assets of $717k. It reported 22 employees.