Missionary Supply Lines

Analysis

Missionary Supply Lines is a registered charity in United States, based in Kingsburg, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1954, 72 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, Missionary Supply Lines reported income of $651k and spending of $747k, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.2m to $651k (-47%), an average of -15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 45%. Over the whole period it spent 111% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Missionary Supply Lines sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 75th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Flaget Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc ($651k), Alexander Hamilton Scholars ($651k) and Missionaries of the Word Inc ($651k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 83% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $90k, net assets of $2.0m.

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.