Potluck Inc

Analysis

Potluck Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in N Little Rock, AR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1991, 35 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, Potluck Inc reported income of $2.1m and spending of $2.0m, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $235k to $2.1m (+789%), an average of +73% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 301%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Potluck Inc sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within AR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Martin Luther King Jr Family Outreach Center ($2.1m), Berkeley Senior Sevices ($2.1m) and Daggett-Crandall-Newcomb Home Inc ($2.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $152k. It paid $32k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $602k against liabilities of $174k, net assets of $428k. It reported 9 employees.