Food and Shelter Inc

Analysis

Food and Shelter Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Norman, OK. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1984, 42 years ago. Its declared purposes cover housing and shelter, which this site groups under housing and shelter. 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, Food and Shelter Inc reported income of $3.2m and spending of $2.8m, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.4m to $3.2m (+139%), an average of +24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 84%. Over the whole period it spent 79% of the income it received.

Among 15,864 United States charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Food and Shelter Inc sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within OK. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Breckinridge Services Inc ($3.2m), Protection Valley Manor Inc ($3.2m) and Housing Unlimited Inc ($3.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 91% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $946k. At year end it held assets of $6.7m against liabilities of $81k, net assets of $6.6m. It reported 24 employees.