Local Environmental Agriculture Project Incorporated

Analysis

Local Environmental Agriculture Project Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Roanoke, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2013, 13 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Local Environmental Agriculture Project Incorporated reported income of $2.3m and spending of $2.3m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $668k to $2.3m (+238%), an average of +36% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 269%. Over the whole period it spent 77% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Local Environmental Agriculture Project Incorporated sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Episcopal Group Homes Inc ($2.3m), Healthy Learners ($2.3m) and Delta Center for Independent Living Inc ($2.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 79% and program service revenue 19% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $530k. At year end it held assets of $2.8m against liabilities of $44k, net assets of $2.7m. It reported 15 employees.