Hillsdale County Agricultural

Analysis

Hillsdale County Agricultural is a registered charity in United States, based in Hillsdale, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1968, 58 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 November 2023, Hillsdale County Agricultural reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.4m, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from November 2019 to November 2023, income grew from $696k to $1.5m (+116%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to November 2021, when income rose by 530%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Hillsdale County Agricultural sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Big Fish Ministries ($1.5m), Osage Prairie YMCA Inc ($1.5m) and Saint Vincent de Paul of Palm Beach County Inc ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending November 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 11% and program service revenue 79% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $117k. At year end it held assets of $2.2m against liabilities of $225k, net assets of $2.0m. It reported 6 employees.