Queen City Community Kitchen

Analysis

Queen City Community Kitchen is a registered charity in United States, based in Cincinnati, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1976, 50 years ago. 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, Queen City Community Kitchen reported income of $169k and spending of $513k, spending 303% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $201k to $169k (-16%), an average of -4.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 110%. Over the whole period it spent 162% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Queen City Community Kitchen sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile, and in the 50th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Georgia Extension 4-H Foundation ($169k), PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc ($169k) and National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Yakima ($169k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 79% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $68k (13% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $270k. At year end it held assets of $2.5m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.5m. It reported 17 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.