West Virginia Food and Farm Coalition

Analysis

West Virginia Food and Farm Coalition is a registered charity in United States, based in Charleston, WV. 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, West Virginia Food and Farm Coalition reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.6m, spending 126% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $941k to $1.2m (+31%), an average of +7.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 107% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, West Virginia Food and Farm Coalition sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 80th percentile within WV. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Home 4 the Heart ($1.2m), Carerite T F C Inc ($1.2m) and The Humanitarian Service Project ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% and program service revenue 10% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $731k. At year end it held assets of $148k against liabilities of $101k, net assets of $47k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.