Melrose Area Food Shelf

Analysis

Melrose Area Food Shelf is a registered charity in United States, based in Melrose, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2000, 26 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, Melrose Area Food Shelf reported income of $78k and spending of $100k, spending 129% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $107k to $78k (-27%), an average of -27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Melrose Area Food Shelf sits at the 27th percentile: it is larger than about 26% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 30th percentile, and in the 27th percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Brandon Area Food Pantry ($78k), My Mental Health Inc ($78k) and Reservoir Food Pantry Inc ($78k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $293k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $293k.