Source: The Mormon Church is NOT a Charity Channel: Nemo the Mormon Published: May 24, 2026 | Archived: May 24, 2026

Video: The Mormon Church is NOT a Charity
Channel: Nemo the Mormon
Published: May 24, 2026
Duration: 6:36
Views: 1,942
Category: Education
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Just how much does the Mormon Church give to charity? Not as much as they claim, certainly not in faith blind charitable giving, and while comparison can be the thief of joy, sometimes it’s worth looking at how the Mormon Church compares to other churches in this area.

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📚 Sources & References:

Kevin Pearson on The Poor https://youtu.be/qwq7xoakgKw?si=KzvZ2364BNHutHnW

First Congregational church https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2025/07/09/salt-lake-city-church-supports/

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2026/05/17/utah-church-cuts-hefty-check-boost/

Worth of Small Congregational Churches https://scholarworks.indianapolis.iu.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/f2a67578-877e-43d0-95c2-34d7bdea71e1/content?authentication-token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJlaWQiOiIwOGFkOTFhMS0yYjRhLTQwMWQtODViNy1mNWM4ZjU1OTM5OWMiLCJzZyI6W10sImF1dGhlbnRpY2F0aW9uTWV0aG9kIjoic2hpYmJvbGV0aCIsImV4cCI6MTcwNTY4ODQ0NX0.f4aaCCLIt4moQZSCvA8lMhiDHjJ_wJSDGnLFh19VcgQ

Financial Set Up of the Church https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/mormon-church-has-misled-members-on-100-billion-tax-exempt-investment-fund-whistleblower-alleges/2019/12/16/e3619bd2-2004-11ea-86f3-3b5019d451db_story.html https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-mormon-church-amassed-100-billion-it-was-the-best-kept-secret-in-the-investment-world-11581138011

Church Sells Buildings https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2026/04/30/lds-church-is-selling-more/

Church Charitable Giving for 2025 https://www.deseret.com/faith/2026/03/10/church-of-jesus-christ-annual-charitable-giving-increases-again/ https://thewidowsmite.org/2025update/

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Transcript — YouTube panel (human-authored)

0:00 purpose of the church is not to feed the poor and the needy of the world. Unfortunately, Kevin Pearson seems to be saying the quiet part out loud. Because while many churches view it as their Christian mission to help the poor and needy, the Mormon church doesn’t seem to have helping the poor and needy that high up their priority list. Let’s take a look at it, shall we? A recent article in the Salt Lake Tribune tells of how the First Congregational Church in Salt Lake City, Utah, gave half a million dollars to charity because they had it going spare after selling one of their buildings. So on Sunday, May 17th, the small but mighty congregation will hand a check worth half a million dollars to Crossroads Urban Center to help the nonprofit build a new thrift store and food pantry with a bonus coffee shop on the city’s west side. When we sold our building four years ago, our fellowship was convicted that this was more God’s resource than ours, the Reverend Doug

0:52 Gray said in a news release accompanying the decision. Since then, we have looked for high impact ways to substantially bless our community, and they have absolutely substantially blessed their community. They have given $1.75 million that came from the proceeds of the sale of that building to help local causes, to help homelessness in the community. Now, churches of the size of the First Congregational Church, from what I’ve been able to gather, have a worth of about $200,000.

1:20 And most churches of that size spend the money, that $200,000 that they bring in each year. They live hand-to-mouth. These churches put very little away by way of reserves. However, there’s one church in America that acts very differently. The Mormon Church is worth, as of 2020, at least $100 billion. And some estimates put it at nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars. That’s $250 billion.

1:46 And that is what they have in reserve. That is what they have going spare. The running costs of the church year are dictated by tithing income. If tithing income were to go down, then the budget of the church would shrink. If tithing income goes up, then the budget of the church increases to a point, but always there is a surplus. And always it is skimmed off the top and put to one side.

2:08 normally to the tune of about a billion dollars or so. And what happens to this spare money? Is it given to charity? No. It’s put into places like Enzyme Peak to bolster their already growing hundred billion dollar portfolio. But when the church has to sell a building because their congregations are shrinking and there’s not enough people to warrant a congregation in that area anymore, what does the church do with the money from selling that building? Do they give it to local community causes around the area in which that congregation once was? As far as we can tell, no. In my opinion, the church has a very serious case of dragon sickness.

2:44 Now, it’s not like the Mormon church doesn’t give any money to charity at all. They give multi-million dollar donations every year to charitable causes from money given to them specifically by members of the church for that purpose. So, what’s the problem? You might be asking. Well, the problem like the purpose of origami is twofold. Okay. First, the size of the church’s charitable donations pale in insignificance to the size of their real estate and land purchases. And second, the size of the church’s charitable giving pales even further in insignificance to the scale of their overall wealth, to the scale of the amount of money that they have in reserve. So, if you’ll indulge me in a graph or two, we can take a look at just how small the amount of money they give to charity is compared to the size of their wealth. And we’ll start by taking a look at what the First Congregational Church gave when they donated that $1.75

3:45 million from the proceeds of the sale of their building. The First Congregational Church gave in total $1,035% of what they are typically worth in a year. Viewed another way, they followed Jesus’s admonition to sell all his belongings, give the proceedings to the poor, take up his cross, and follow him. The boldness of this directive caused the young ruler, in spite of his expensive sandals, to get cold feet, and he went away sorrowing because the scripture says he had great possessions.

4:23 Obviously, this is an important cautionary tale about the uses of wealth and the needs of the poor. And here is what the Mormon church gave as a percentage of their wealth in 2025. It’s either 1.58% or 0.68% depending on what you put their total wealth at. And much of the Mormon churches, okay, we’ll wait for this freight train to go. And much of the Mormon church’s claimed $1.58 billion in charitable spending is actually just fast offerings, which is assistance given to tithep paying members of the church, which essentially makes it a membership perk rather than genuine faithblind charity. And according to analysis by the widows might, between 785 and 845 million is what the church spends in fast offering assistance. So that makes their actual charitable spending about 700 million or about 44% of what they claim to be giving to charity. So if we adjust that graph based on the widows might report, here is what we see. If the Mormon church is worth 100 billion, then they gave 0.7 of

5:25 that to charity in 2025. If they’re worth around 230 billion, then they gave 0.3% of that to charity in 2025. as little as 0.3% of their total wealth is what the Mormon church spends on charity work, certainly in 2025 anyway. And they are boasting that that is larger than last year and it is probably their largest year of charitable giving to date. For a church that asks for a 10% tithe from its members, it can’t even seem to bring itself to give a tenth of a tithe to the poor and needy of the world. To be honest, I would love to see the launch of an initiative called You Tithe, We Tithe. But I think launching pigs and expecting them to fly is something that will happen much more quickly. So while we wait to see if the church will continue to increase their charitable giving marginally year-over-year until maybe they give more to genuine faithblide charity than they do to their own members by way of a kickback if those members pay their tithing. You can watch this video here.

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