Sacramento Loaves and Fishes

Analysis

Sacramento Loaves and Fishes is a registered charity in United States, based in Sacramento, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1989, 37 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, Sacramento Loaves and Fishes reported income of $9.8m and spending of $9.6m, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $8.2m to $9.8m (+20%), an average of +4.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 15%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Sacramento Loaves and Fishes sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile, and in the 95th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Roxbury Tenants of Harvard Association Inc ($9.8m), Midland Adult Services Inc ($9.8m) and Alternatives to Hunger ($9.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% and program service revenue 1.0% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $141k (1.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $3.5m. At year end it held assets of $13.1m against liabilities of $121k, net assets of $13.0m. It reported 107 employees.