High Desert Food & Farm Alliance

Analysis

High Desert Food & Farm Alliance is a registered charity in United States, based in Bend, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 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, High Desert Food & Farm Alliance reported income of $854k and spending of $983k, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $315k to $854k (+171%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, High Desert Food & Farm Alliance sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Possessing the Keys of the Kingdom ($854k), Tenderfoot Child and Family Development Center ($854k) and Childrens Learning Center ($854k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% and program service revenue 2.6% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $96k (9.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $370k. At year end it held assets of $583k against liabilities of $19k, net assets of $565k. It reported 14 employees.