We Care Mission

What it reported doing in 2024

We Care Mission Thrift Shop is a major Christian outreach ministry of We Care Mission established by the Christian community of Scott County, Mississippi to share and show the love of Jesus Christ for all people in the community through the provision of food and clothing assistance to those in need of such assistance. In its operation of the thrift shop, We Care Mission seeks to follow the example of Jesus Christ in reaching out to all people. We Care Mission Thrift Shop is the beneficiary of a generous community residing in Scott County and surrounding areas that is willing to share with others clothing and household items that they no longer need. Besides being an entity through which people can share with others clothes and household items they no longer need and an entity where purchases of such shared clothing can be accomplished by the people in the community of Scott County, Mississippi. Other resulting accomplishments of We Care Mission Thrift Shop are a caring presence in the community, a social setting for volunteers and customers to enrich their lives, and a source of funding support for We Care Mission Food Pantry which during 2024 provided food assistance monthly to approximately 290 Scott County households. Besides being a place to provide clothes to all people at a reasonable place or in some cases free in the case of emergencies or lack of money, it is emphasized that the We Care Mission Thrift Shop is very important to the funding of the primary outreach ministry of We Care Mission--the food distribution program conducted by the We Care Mission Food Pantry. One of the purposes of We Care Mission Thrift Shop is to make We Care Mission to the extent possible self-supporting relative to We Care Mission Food Pantry without the need to do a lot of fundraising. On the other hand, We Care Mission Thrift Shop has the purpose to provide clothes to people in need. These two purposes (the need to fund We Care Mission Food Pantry and the need to help people with their clothing needs) impact clothing prices at the We Care Mission Thrift Shop. We Care Mission Thrift Shop relative to clothing prices charges $1.00 per item for adult clothing and $.50 per item for children's clothing. We Care Mission has been blessed in the present and in the past in the accomplishment of these purposes for the We Care Mission Thrift Shop and importantly it has been successful in providing 40% to 50% of the funding of food purchases of We Care Mission Food Pantry. It it emphasized that these funds to partially support We Care Mission result from the generosity of the community in donating clothes to We Care Mission and the hard work of volunteers as they seek to turn the donated clothes into funding for the We Care Mission Food Pantry. It is noted that We Care Mission realized $29014 in gross proceeds from the clothes donated in 2024 and that amount is included in the total amount of $58383 included in Line 1 of Part 1. Although the value of the donated clothes by the community was valued at $29014 many more clothes were donated and those excess clothes are either reflected in the store inventory or were taken to other missions for their thrift shops or for bundling. We Care Mission Thrift Shop, as all outreach ministries of We Care Mission including the food distribution program of We Care Mission Food Pantry, are supported totally by volunteers. No one receives any compensation relative to any of the outreach ministries of We Care Mission. It is noted that the We Care Mission during 2024 was open just about every Saturday during 2024 for three hours----9 to 12 in the morning.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -11.2%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.73; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -33.9% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings