Mattoon Community Food Center

Analysis

Mattoon Community Food Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Mattoon, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1991, 35 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, Mattoon Community Food Center reported income of $188k and spending of $211k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $251k to $188k (-25%), an average of -9.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Mattoon Community Food Center sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 52nd percentile, and in the 53rd percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Faith Village Inc ($188k), San Diego Refugee Tutoring ($188k) and Beneficial Rep Payee Services Inc ($188k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $248k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $248k.