Woodstock Community Food Shelf

Analysis

Woodstock Community Food Shelf is a registered charity in United States, based in Woodstock, VT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2008, 18 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, Woodstock Community Food Shelf reported income of $138k and spending of $104k, leaving 25% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $304k to $138k (-55%), an average of -23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 59%. Over the whole period it spent 45% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Woodstock Community Food Shelf sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 45th percentile, and in the 35th percentile within VT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Alliance for Better Nutrition Inc ($138k), Hastings Farmers Market Inc ($138k) and Centro Familiar Nueva Esperanza ($138k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. At year end it held assets of $546k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $546k.