Gettysburg Community Soup Kitchen

Analysis

Gettysburg Community Soup Kitchen is a registered charity in United States, based in Gettysburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1996, 30 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, Gettysburg Community Soup Kitchen reported income of $174k and spending of $154k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $149k to $174k (+17%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Gettysburg Community Soup Kitchen sits at the 45th percentile: it is larger than about 45% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 48th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tent Minstries ($174k), Act II Thrift Shop Inc ($174k) and Gem Legacy Inc ($174k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. At year end it held assets of $311k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $311k.