Buffalo Food Shelf

Analysis

Buffalo Food Shelf is a registered charity in United States, based in Buffalo, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, 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, Buffalo Food Shelf reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.2m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $601k to $1.2m (+96%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Buffalo Food Shelf sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 80th percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include South East Consortium for Special Services Inc ($1.2m), Aina Hookupu O Kilauea ($1.2m) and South Pacific Charitable Foundation ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $53k. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $5,433, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 5 employees.