Centennial Community Food Shelf

Analysis

Centennial Community Food Shelf is a registered charity in United States, based in Circle Pines, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 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, Centennial Community Food Shelf reported income of $260k and spending of $220k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $320k to $260k (-19%), an average of -6.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 54% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Centennial Community Food Shelf sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile, and in the 58th percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Holmen Area Community Center Inc ($260k), Hannahs Hope Inc ($260k) and Elizabeth Guild Inc ($260k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. At year end it held assets of $603k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $603k.