Hancock County Food Pantry Inc

Analysis

Hancock County Food Pantry Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Bay St Louis, MS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, 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, Hancock County Food Pantry Inc reported income of $1.1m and spending of $714k, leaving 35% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $533k to $1.1m (+106%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Hancock County Food Pantry Inc sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within MS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Journey to Adult Success ($1.1m), Billings District Council of the Society of St Vincent de Paul ($1.1m) and Made in the Streets ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $919k against liabilities of $18k, net assets of $900k.