Helping Hand Food Pantry

Analysis

Helping Hand Food Pantry is a registered charity in United States, based in Hillsdale, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2001, 25 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, Helping Hand Food Pantry reported income of $130k and spending of $125k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $75k to $130k (+74%), an average of +74% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 74%. Over the whole period it spent 124% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Helping Hand Food Pantry sits at the 39th percentile: it is larger than about 39% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile, and in the 51st percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Little Busy Bodies Daycare Inc NFP ($130k), Riverlife Inc ($130k) and Renewal Neighborhood Ministry Inc ($130k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $76k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $76k.