Big Valley Thrift & Gift Shop

Analysis

Big Valley Thrift & Gift Shop is a registered charity in United States, based in Belleville, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2006, 20 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, Big Valley Thrift & Gift Shop reported income of $617k and spending of $410k, leaving 34% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $309k to $617k (+100%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 71% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Big Valley Thrift & Gift Shop sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 71st percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Oregon Area Food Pantry Inc ($616k), Grace House of Itasca County ($617k) and North Coast Food Web ($616k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.2% and program service revenue 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $88k. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $323k, net assets of $997k. It reported 11 employees.