Harvest USA 
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Summary
Harvest USA brings the truth and mercy of Jesus Christ by:
- Helping individuals and families affected by sexual struggles
- Providing resources that address biblical sexuality to individuals and churches
Contact information
Mailing address:
Harvest USA
715 Twining Road, Suite 200
Dresher, PA 19025
Website: harvestusa.org
Phone: (215) 482-0111
Email: [email protected]
Organization details
EIN: 232684968
CEO/President: Mark Sanders
Chairman: Steven Bucklen
Board size: 12
Founder: John Freeman
Ruling year: 1993
Tax deductible: Yes
Fiscal year end: 06/30
Member of ECFA: Yes
Member of ECFA since: 1996
Purpose
To partner with and equip the Church in bringing the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to transform the lives of those affected by sexual sin.
Mission statement
Harvest USA brings the truth and mercy of Jesus Christ by helping individuals and families affected by sexual struggles and by providing resources that address biblical sexuality to individuals and churches.
Statement of faith
The Godhead and Divine Revelation
We believe God is one Being existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God is the Sovereign, the Creator, and the Sustainer of all things. God is the source and the end of all truth. Jesus Christ is the eternal begotten Son of God, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, fully God and fully man. Christ, having accomplished a perfect, substitutional, sacrificial, and atoning work in His life and death, now lives as resurrected and ascended Lord to act as intercessor and mediator before God on behalf of all believers.
We believe that the Scriptures, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, are the inspired and written word of God, inerrant in their original writings, the infallible authority by which He directs and governs all our activities. The Scriptures are in and of themselves the basis for teaching, reproof, correction, and training in godly living.
Humanity and Doctrine
We believe that man was created in the image of God as a rational, moral, and spiritual being. Man sinned in Adam and fell with him in his first transgression into a state of death and separation from God. Man's fall affected him spiritually, intellectually, and physically. He is restored and reconciled only by the renewing grace of the Holy Spirit and the cleansing blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We believe the doctrines of grace as taught in the Scriptures to be those truths essential for salvation and for the ability to experience freedom from one's besetting sins. Men and women are saved and justified, that is, made right and acceptable before the holy God, by grace through faith in Christ alone. The free offer of peace with God is available to all who will come to Him, having their hearts prepared and opened by the Holy Spirit to respond to the offer of salvation. Once justified adopted, and set apart by God's Spirit, believers are kept faithful and obedient to Christ not by mere willpower but by the supernatural power of God who saves them for all eternity.
Human Sexuality
We believe that our sexuality and its expression were designed by God at creation and that our sexuality and its expression were part of God's original and good design for mankind, and is clearly communicated to us in the Scriptures. Male and female were both created in God's image, and we affirm that God's perfect design for all sexual activity is between one man and one woman in the context of the marriage bond. We recognize that, as a consequence of the Fall, all men and women are sexually broken and thus relate in twisted ways to God, self, others, and nature. Therefore, all expressions of sexual activity outside of the bond of marriage are sinful and are a distortion of God's good design. This includes all involvement with pornography, sexual fantasy, sexual addictions, adultery, homosexuality, gender distortions and any other sexual activity outside of marriage. All sexual sin grieves God and is offensive to His Holiness, and all sexual sin ultimately harms people, whether it is homosexual or heterosexual sin.
We believe that homosexuality is not what God wills for human beings made in His image. We affirm that both homosexual desire and behavior are expressions of mankind's fallenness, and like all other types of sexual sin, needs to be confessed, renounced and forsaken by those who would be followers of Jesus Christ. We believe that God has always called men and women out of homosexuality or other sexual sin patterns and into the new life of His kingdom through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. Thus any attempt to claim, cultivate, or promote a gay identity for oneself is out of place in a confessing Christian since it necessarily competes with the holy identity in Christ that every believer has been given and must claim by faith. We believe that Christ gives to all who seek it a growing freedom from the compulsive pull of all sorts of sinful sexual fantasy and behavior. This does not preclude the possibility of serious lapses of love and obedience on the part of those who truly believe, but such must be evaluated in light of the ordinary path and process of sanctification in which God places all of His children. Such failure on the part of believers can never be taken as license to abolish the call to holiness or to allow a reinterpretation of the Scriptures that permits a "gay Christian" theology.
The Church and Ministry
We believe the Church is the primary instrument God has chosen to use in ministering the reconciliation and wholeness Christ won at the cross. At the same time, believing that the Lord takes up all kinds of instruments into His hand for the perfecting of His people, we are thankful for genuine help for people struggling with sexual sin from whatever quarter it comes.
Donor confidence score
Transparency grade
C
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Financial efficiency ratings
Sector: Educational Media
| Category | Rating | Overall rank | Sector rank |
| Overall efficiency rating | | 1038 of 1117 | 43 of 45 |
| Fund acquisition rating | | 878 of 1118 | 37 of 45 |
| Resource allocation rating | | 1055 of 1118 | 43 of 45 |
| Asset utilization rating | | 804 of 1117 | 33 of 45 |
Financial ratios
| Funding ratios | Sector median | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
Return on fundraising efforts Return on fundraising efforts = Fundraising expense / Total contributions | 8% | 14% | 13% | 15% | 15% | 15% |
Fundraising cost ratio Fundraising cost ratio = Fundraising expense / Total revenue | 7% | 13% | 13% | 15% | 14% | 14% |
Contributions reliance Contributions reliance = Total contributions / Total revenue | 93% | 95% | 98% | 100% | 96% | 98% |
Fundraising expense ratio Fundraising expense ratio = Fundraising expense / Total expenses | 7% | 16% | 15% | 17% | 21% | 20% |
Other revenue reliance Other revenue reliance = Total other revenue / Total revenue | 7% | 5% | 2% | 0% | 4% | 2% |
| Operating ratios | Sector median | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
Program expense ratio Program expense ratio = Program services / Total expenses | 81% | 66% | 65% | 54% | 55% | 55% |
Spending ratio Spending ratio = Total expenses / Total revenue | 94% | 84% | 84% | 86% | 68% | 71% |
Program output ratio Program output ratio = Program services / Total revenue | 77% | 55% | 54% | 46% | 37% | 40% |
Savings ratio Savings ratio = Surplus (deficit) / Total revenue | 6% | 16% | 16% | 14% | 32% | 29% |
Reserve accumulation rate Reserve accumulation rate = Surplus (deficit) / Net assets | 7% | 12% | 13% | 13% | 37% | 56% |
General and admin ratio General and admin ratio = Management and general expense / Total expenses | 12% | 19% | 20% | 29% | 25% | 25% |
| Investing ratios | Sector median | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
Total asset turnover Total asset turnover = Total expenses / Total assets | 0.78 | 0.47 | 0.46 | 0.74 | 0.75 | 1.30 |
Degree of long-term investment Degree of long-term investment = Total assets / Total current assets | 1.48 | 1.32 | 1.44 | 1.01 | 1.02 | 1.03 |
Current asset turnover Current asset turnover = Total expenses / Total current assets | 1.47 | 0.63 | 0.67 | 0.74 | 0.77 | 1.34 |
| Liquidity ratios | Sector median | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
Current ratio Current ratio = Total current assets / Total current liabilities | 14.32 | 25.46 | 29.83 | 22.63 | 19.68 | 13.68 |
Current liabilities ratio Current liabilities ratio = Total current liabilities / Total current assets | 0.07 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.07 |
Liquid reserve level Liquid reserve level = (Total current assets - Total current liabilities) / (Total expenses / 12) | 6.92 | 18.40 | 17.39 | 15.47 | 14.88 | 8.29 |
| Solvency ratios | Sector median | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
Liabilities ratio Liabilities ratio = Total liabilities / Total assets | 8% | 26% | 32% | 4% | 5% | 7% |
Debt ratio Debt ratio = Debt / Total assets | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Reserve coverage ratio Reserve coverage ratio = Net assets / Total expenses | 98% | 155% | 147% | 130% | 126% | 72% |
Financials
| Balance sheet | |||||
| Assets | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Cash | $113,932 | $150,866 | $760,346 | $525,037 | $685,445 |
| Receivables, inventories, prepaids | $62,276 | $50,537 | $42,623 | $36,707 | $43,593 |
| Short-term investments | $2,558,914 | $2,023,978 | $1,107,264 | $1,245,238 | $395,198 |
| Other current assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total current assets | $2,735,122 | $2,225,381 | $1,910,233 | $1,806,982 | $1,124,236 |
| Long-term investments | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Fixed assets | $49,626 | $42,929 | $16,259 | $29,128 | $39,125 |
| Other long-term assets | $832,101 | $931,653 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total long-term assets | $881,727 | $974,582 | $16,259 | $29,128 | $39,125 |
| Total assets | $3,616,849 | $3,199,963 | $1,926,492 | $1,836,110 | $1,163,361 |
| Liabilities | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Payables and accrued expenses | $107,445 | $74,598 | $75,696 | $83,112 | $73,454 |
| Other current liabilities | $0 | $0 | $8,723 | $8,723 | $8,723 |
| Total current liabilities | $107,445 | $74,598 | $84,419 | $91,835 | $82,177 |
| Debt | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Due to (from) affiliates | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Other long-term liabilities | $850,549 | $942,120 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total long-term liabilities | $850,549 | $942,120 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total liabilities | $957,994 | $1,016,718 | $84,419 | $91,835 | $82,177 |
| Net assets | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Without donor restrictions | $2,313,875 | $1,817,974 | $1,362,118 | $1,228,493 | $649,476 |
| With donor restrictions | $344,980 | $365,271 | $479,955 | $515,782 | $431,708 |
| Net assets | $2,658,855 | $2,183,245 | $1,842,073 | $1,744,275 | $1,081,184 |
| Revenues and expenses | |||||
| Revenue | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Total contributions | $1,941,692 | $1,732,801 | $1,645,015 | $1,938,681 | $2,072,243 |
| Program service revenue | $31,353 | $12,870 | $18,316 | $12,361 | $28,890 |
| Membership dues | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Investment income | $59,409 | $20,838 | ($18,199) | $65,922 | ($6,613) |
| Other revenue | $7,417 | $5,320 | $4,830 | $6,142 | $18,035 |
| Total other revenue | $98,179 | $39,028 | $4,947 | $84,425 | $40,312 |
| Total revenue | $2,039,871 | $1,771,829 | $1,649,962 | $2,023,106 | $2,112,555 |
| Expenses | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Program services | $1,123,014 | $963,440 | $758,570 | $758,406 | $835,038 |
| Management and general | $322,592 | $298,147 | $409,810 | $341,218 | $372,576 |
| Fundraising | $268,210 | $222,636 | $247,633 | $283,739 | $300,996 |
| Total expenses | $1,713,816 | $1,484,223 | $1,416,013 | $1,383,363 | $1,508,610 |
| Change in net assets | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Surplus (deficit) | $326,055 | $287,606 | $233,949 | $639,743 | $603,945 |
| Other changes in net assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total change in net assets | $326,055 | $287,606 | $233,949 | $639,743 | $603,945 |
Compensation
| Name | Title | Compensation |
| John Freeman | Founder | $131,731 |
| Mark Sanders | President | $119,694 |
| Scott Pickering | Chief Operating Officer | $115,893 |
Compensation data as of: 6/30/2024
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History
Harvest USA began in 1983 as an outreach ministry in Center City, Philadelphia to care for those affected by the AIDS crisis. Founded as a ministry to those particularly struggling with same-sex attraction, Harvest USA has since expanded its outreach to include those who struggle with sexual issues of all types.
Today, the larger mission of Harvest USA is two-fold. First, Harvest USA seeks to be a resource to the local church, equipping individual congregations and the Church at large to better care for and disciple those affected by sexual brokenness.We provide excellent resources through our blogs, videos, seminars, presentations, and books to support and strengthen the Church. Second, Harvest USA is committed to providing one-on-one discipleship and support groups for men, women, and parents in both its Philadelphia and Pittsburgh offices.
Program accomplishments
Needs
Since 96% of our annual revenue comes from the gifts of individuals and churches, your partnership makes our ministry possible.