Sonoma Home Meals Inc

Analysis

Sonoma Home Meals Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Sonoma, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1985, 41 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, Sonoma Home Meals Inc reported income of $111k and spending of $122k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $142k to $111k (-22%), an average of -5.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 93%. Over the whole period it spent 63% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Sonoma Home Meals Inc sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile, and in the 42nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Faithbuilders Inc ($111k), Love Inc of the Greater Gowanda ($111k) and Mendota Tri-County Fair Association Inc ($111k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 29% and program service revenue 37% of the total. At year end it held assets of $883k against liabilities of $970, net assets of $882k.