Hershey Food Bank and Community Outreach Inc

Analysis

Hershey Food Bank and Community Outreach Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Hershey, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, 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, Hershey Food Bank and Community Outreach Inc reported income of $378k and spending of $269k, leaving 29% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $245k to $378k (+54%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 68% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Hershey Food Bank and Community Outreach Inc sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 64th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Loving Concern International ($378k), Lamoille Community Food Share Inc ($378k) and Senior Center of Elk Grove ($378k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 68% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.1m.