Pipestone County Food Shelf

Analysis

Pipestone County Food Shelf is a registered charity in United States, based in Pipestone, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2006, 20 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, Pipestone County Food Shelf reported income of $178k and spending of $147k, spending 82% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income grew from $81k to $178k (+118%), an average of +48% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 82%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Pipestone County Food Shelf sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 49th percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Choosing Life Pregnancy Resource Center ($178k), Growing Angels Inc ($178k) and Glenville Child Care Inc ($178k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. At year end it held assets of $140k against liabilities of $36, net assets of $140k.