Hot Lunch Service

Analysis

Hot Lunch Service is a registered charity in United States, based in Kansas City, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1989, 37 years ago. 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, Hot Lunch Service reported income of $207k and spending of $205k, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $164k to $207k (+26%), an average of +5.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Hot Lunch Service sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile, and in the 54th percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Spirit of Peace Baptist Church ($207k), Restoring Lives International Inc ($207k) and Higher Eduction Consortium of Central Massachusetts Inc ($207k).

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 $112k. At year end it held assets of $218k against liabilities of $3,156, net assets of $214k. It reported 13 employees.