Brooklyn Food Pantry

Analysis

Brooklyn Food Pantry is a registered charity in United States, based in Brooklyn, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 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, Brooklyn Food Pantry reported income of $192k and spending of $184k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $122k to $192k (+57%), an average of +57% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 119% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Brooklyn Food Pantry sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile, and in the 52nd percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tenacious Group Inc ($192k), Lifespring Childcare Center Inc ($192k) and Family Promise of Coastal Alabama Inc ($192k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $194k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $194k.