Emergency Food Box Inc

Analysis

Emergency Food Box Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Marshalltown, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1991, 35 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. 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, Emergency Food Box Inc reported income of $178k and spending of $148k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $210k to $178k (-15%), an average of -5.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 64% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Emergency Food Box Inc sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 52nd percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Slo Water Polo Club ($178k), Mackinac Horsemens Associations ($178k) and Leo-Grabill Sports Complex Inc ($178k).

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 $515k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $515k.