Reb Shayalas Kitchen

Analysis

Reb Shayalas Kitchen is a registered charity in United States, based in Spring Valley, NY. 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, Reb Shayalas Kitchen reported income of $7.7m and spending of $7.6m, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $602k to $7.7m (+1178%), an average of +89% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 638%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Reb Shayalas Kitchen sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include El Centro de Pueblo ($7.7m), Jameson Care Center Inc ($7.7m) and Midcoast Maine Community Action ($7.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $903k. At year end it held assets of $336k against liabilities of $880k, net assets of -$544k. It reported 16 employees.