West Chester Food Cupboard

Analysis

West Chester Food Cupboard is a registered charity in United States, based in West Chester, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2013, 13 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 June 2024, West Chester Food Cupboard reported income of $3.8m and spending of $3.4m, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2024, income grew from $2.6m to $3.8m (+44%), an average of +9.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 35%. 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, West Chester Food Cupboard sits at the 89th 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 89th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Action Program Region VII Inc ($3.8m), Pads to Hope Inc ($3.8m) and Free & Accepted Masons of Georgia ($3.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.7m against liabilities of $594k, net assets of $3.1m.