Meadville Community Soup Kitchen

Analysis

Meadville Community Soup Kitchen is a registered charity in United States, based in Meadville, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 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, Meadville Community Soup Kitchen reported income of $95k and spending of $90k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $133k to $95k (-28%), an average of -28% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 74% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Meadville Community Soup Kitchen sits at the 31st percentile: it is larger than about 31% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 36th percentile, and in the 34th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dinner Before Bedtime Inc ($95k), 100 Women of the Coastal Bend Inc ($96k) and Folsom Trailblazers Snowmobile Club Inc ($95k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% of the total. At year end it held assets of $314k against liabilities of $1,508, net assets of $312k.