Branch Area Food Pantry

Analysis

Branch Area Food Pantry is a registered charity in United States, based in Coldwater, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2005, 21 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, Branch Area Food Pantry reported income of $340k and spending of $181k, leaving 47% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $125k to $340k (+172%), an average of +28% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 112%. Over the whole period it spent 53% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Branch Area Food Pantry sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile, and in the 64th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rollins Employee Relief Fund Inc ($340k), Robinwood Day Care Center Inc ($340k) and Lyon County Community Childcare Inc ($340k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% of the total. At year end it held assets of $956k against liabilities of $2,859, net assets of $953k.