Polo Lifeline Food and Self Help Project

Analysis

Polo Lifeline Food and Self Help Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Polo, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 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 2023, Polo Lifeline Food and Self Help Project reported income of $68k and spending of $75k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $58k to $68k (+17%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 111% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Polo Lifeline Food and Self Help Project sits at the 23rd percentile: it is larger than about 23% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 27th percentile, and in the 28th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include House of Mary ($68k), South Carolina School Food Service Purchasing Alliance ($68k) and Arize Unlimited Inc ($68k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $74k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $74k.