Greater Bennington Interfaith Community Services Inc

Analysis

Greater Bennington Interfaith Community Services Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Bennington, VT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Greater Bennington Interfaith Community Services Inc reported income of $517k and spending of $540k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income fell from $547k to $517k (-5.4%), an average of -1.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 74% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Greater Bennington Interfaith Community Services Inc sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 65th percentile within VT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Jeffs Place Childrens Bereavement Center Inc ($517k), Xquisite ($517k) and Bishop James Daly Gardens Senior Housing Development Fund Company I ($517k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 82% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $188k. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $14k, net assets of $1.5m. It reported 7 employees.