Cultivating Community

Analysis

Cultivating Community is a registered charity in United States, based in Portland, ME. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2003, 23 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Cultivating Community reported income of $1.1m and spending of $1.1m, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.2m to $1.1m (-13%), an average of -3.4% a year. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Cultivating Community sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within ME. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gold Plate Program of Perry County ($1.1m), Moving Mountains Incorporated ($1.1m) and Cady Inc Communities for Alcohol & Drug Free Youth ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 89% and program service revenue 10% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $62k (5.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $391k. At year end it held assets of $119k against liabilities of $142k, net assets of -$23k. It reported 15 employees.