Outreach Foodshelf

Analysis

Outreach Foodshelf is a registered charity in United States, based in Alexandria, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2005, 21 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, Outreach Foodshelf reported income of $1.6m and spending of $1.3m, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.6m (+45%), an average of +9.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Outreach Foodshelf sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include County North Childrens Center Inc ($1.6m), Trinity Unlimited Outreach ($1.6m) and Pennsylvania Home of the Sparrow ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $69k. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $10k, net assets of $1.8m. It reported 1 employees.