LA Pine Community Kitchen

Analysis

LA Pine Community Kitchen is a registered charity in United States, based in LA Pine, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2006, 20 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, LA Pine Community Kitchen reported income of $839k and spending of $732k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $862k to $839k (-2.6%), an average of -0.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, LA Pine Community Kitchen sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mark 2 Ministries Inc ($839k), Aharo Hawaii ($840k) and Hazleton Integration Project Inc ($839k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $81k (11% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $31k. At year end it held assets of $803k against liabilities of $138k, net assets of $665k.