Rebirth: East St. Louis Financial Charts

It's our desire to spend the money that God allows us to steward in a way that most strategically advances the Gospel among the youth of East St. Louis. We aim to be fully transparent in our spending, and you'll see a few charts below to that end.

Our fiscal year runs with the school year. We have been conservative in some of our distribution of money in order to be as prudent and strategic as possible, and have thus accrued some reserves to do some larger projects we have planned for this summer (2011).

We have also broken our budget into two categories of cost: Program and Administrative. These represent the two main aspects of any organization’s budget. Program costs indicate how much money we spend on actually doing ministry. Administrative costs reflect the cost of running the ministry. A healthy non-profit has at least 75% of its budget devoted to program costs.

The chart to the right shows just how the money spent on youth was distributed. We spent a significant amount on Bible Study costs, which is obviously one of our key programmatic elements. We also continued to provide equipment and educational needs for the East St. Louis School District. See the note about the "Physical Needs of Students" sector below for an explantion of that particular aspect.

NOTE: We have re-worked this breakdown so that next year it will be much more specific. Things like coats and books were included in the "Assistance to District 189 Schools" category, so it skews the "Physical Needs of Students" sector. However, there was a large amount of money spent on students' physical needs, even if our categorization wasn't the most helpful.