Community Harvest

Analysis

Community Harvest is a registered charity in United States, based in Kennebunk, ME. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2003, 23 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 2022, Community Harvest reported income of $64k and spending of $47k, leaving 26% of income unspent that year. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2022, income fell from $81k to $64k (-21%), an average of -21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 21%. Over the whole period it spent 58% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Community Harvest sits at the 22nd percentile: it is larger than about 22% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 25th percentile, and in the 18th percentile within ME. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Center Inc ($64k), California Street Corporation ($64k) and Firelands Electric People Fund Inc ($64k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $122k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $122k.