Shoreline Soup Kitchens & Pantries

Analysis

Shoreline Soup Kitchens & Pantries is a registered charity in United States, based in Essex, CT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2015, 11 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, Shoreline Soup Kitchens & Pantries reported income of $2.4m and spending of $2.2m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.5m to $2.4m (+58%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 73%. Over the whole period it spent 79% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Shoreline Soup Kitchens & Pantries sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within CT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Jewish Family Service of San Antonio Texas Inc ($2.4m), Archer Consultation Services Inc ($2.4m) and Carolina Caring Foundation Inc ($2.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $95k (4.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $349k. At year end it held assets of $3.2m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $3.2m. It reported 17 employees.