Pella Community Food Shelf

Analysis

Pella Community Food Shelf is a registered charity in United States, based in Pella, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 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 December 2023, Pella Community Food Shelf reported income of $643k and spending of $267k, leaving 58% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $233k to $643k (+175%), an average of +40% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 230%. Over the whole period it spent 52% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Pella Community Food Shelf sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 76th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Special Needs Services of Ray County ($643k), Commit-2-Change Inc ($643k) and Cincinnati Pride Inc ($643k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 91% and program service revenue 6.1% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $675k, net assets of $970k.