Food Connects

Analysis

Food Connects is a registered charity in United States, based in Brattleboro, VT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2014, 12 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, Food Connects reported income of $2.2m and spending of $1.8m, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $627k to $2.2m (+259%), an average of +38% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 75%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Food Connects sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within VT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Enriched Living LLC ($2.2m), Rocky Mountain Kids Inc ($2.2m) and Druid Hills Child Development Center Inc ($2.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 74% and program service revenue 3.4% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $69k (3.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $506k, net assets of $747k. It reported 40 employees.