Sea Islands Hunger Awareness Foundation

Analysis

Sea Islands Hunger Awareness Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Johns Island, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Sea Islands Hunger Awareness Foundation reported income of $449k and spending of $517k, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $731k to $449k (-39%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 71% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Sea Islands Hunger Awareness Foundation sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Blue Door Ministries Inc ($449k), Visionary Family Ministries Inc ($449k) and Tri-City Visionaries Inc ($449k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.2m.