Operation Spring Plant

Analysis

Operation Spring Plant is a registered charity in United States, based in Oxford, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1994, 32 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, Operation Spring Plant reported income of $687k and spending of $884k, spending 129% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $326k to $687k (+111%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 212%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Operation Spring Plant sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 75th percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Genesis House of Olean Inc ($686k), Do Right Ministries Community Development ($687k) and Four Winds Community ($686k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% and program service revenue 0.4% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $287k. At year end it held assets of $344k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $344k. It reported 9 employees.