Plateau Outreach Ministries

Analysis

Plateau Outreach Ministries is a registered charity in United States, based in Enumclaw, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Plateau Outreach Ministries reported income of $2.4m and spending of $2.3m, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $920k to $2.4m (+161%), an average of +27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 71%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Plateau Outreach Ministries sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Alternative Living Solutions ($2.4m), Bold Futures NM ($2.4m) and Diakonos Inc ($2.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% and program service revenue 8.2% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $312k. At year end it held assets of $2.8m against liabilities of $11k, net assets of $2.8m. It reported 12 employees.