San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition

Analysis

San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition is a registered charity in United States, based in Alamosa, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2012, 14 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, San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition reported income of $3.6m and spending of $3.7m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.4m to $3.6m (+160%), an average of +27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 51%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 91st percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Streetlight Community Outreach Ministries ($3.6m), St Vincent de Paul Thrift Store of Dallas ($3.6m) and Fundacion Sila M Calderon Inc ($3.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 42% and program service revenue 56% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $965k. At year end it held assets of $3.1m against liabilities of $349k, net assets of $2.8m. It reported 43 employees.