Helping Hands Nutritional Service

Analysis

Helping Hands Nutritional Service is a registered charity in United States, based in Aiken, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1997, 29 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, Helping Hands Nutritional Service reported income of $536k and spending of $543k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $574k to $536k (-6.5%), an average of -1.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Helping Hands Nutritional Service sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 76th percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include New Jersey State Elks Assoc National Veterans Service Charity ($536k), Gideon Pond West Inc ($537k) and Lowenstein House ($536k).

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 $60k. At year end it held assets of $66k against liabilities of $17k, net assets of $49k. It reported 3 employees.