Community Farms Outreach

Analysis

Community Farms Outreach is a registered charity in United States, based in Waltham, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1996, 30 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, Community Farms Outreach reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.2m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $817k to $1.3m (+58%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Community Farms Outreach sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 81st percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ordinary Hero Foundation Inc ($1.3m), Pin Ministry ($1.3m) and Refugee Empowerment Program ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 54% and program service revenue 42% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $613k. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $28k, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 28 employees.