Cracker Barrel Cares Inc

Analysis

Cracker Barrel Cares Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Lebanon, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public safety, disaster preparedness and relief, which this site groups under armed forces, emergency and public safety. 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, Cracker Barrel Cares Inc reported income of $605k and spending of $680k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.1m to $605k (-44%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 113%. Over the whole period it spent 71% of the income it received.

Among 9,128 United States charities whose main cause is armed forces, emergency and public safety and that reported income, Cracker Barrel Cares Inc sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 75th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Oxford Fire Company Endowment Inc ($604k), Disaster Assistance Coc Inc ($606k) and Solomons Volunteer Rescue Squad and Fire Department Inc ($604k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.0m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.0m.