Berkeley Student Food Collective

Analysis

Berkeley Student Food Collective is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a organisation supporting a government-owned college or university under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Berkeley Student Food Collective reported income of $461k and spending of $442k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $77k to $461k (+497%), an average of +81% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 162%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Berkeley Student Food Collective sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 71st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ricardo Ogorman Garden and Center for Resources in the Humanities in ($461k), Roxies Elderly Homes ($461k) and 58ten Inc ($461k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 17% and program service revenue 82% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $58k (13% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $85k against liabilities of $25k, net assets of $60k. It reported 1 employees.