Otsego County Community Food Pantry

Analysis

Otsego County Community Food Pantry is a registered charity in United States, based in Gaylord, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1998, 28 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, Otsego County Community Food Pantry reported income of $912k and spending of $422k, leaving 54% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $226k to $912k (+304%), an average of +59% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 183%. Over the whole period it spent 52% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Otsego County Community Food Pantry sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Robeson County Agriculture & Industrial Exposition Inc ($912k), Friends of Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration Inc ($912k) and Soldiers for Faith ($911k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $877k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $877k.