Community Food Pantry

Analysis

Community Food Pantry is a registered charity in United States, based in Butler, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2005, 21 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, Community Food Pantry reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.3m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.7m to $1.3m (-51%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Community Food Pantry sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 80th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Glen-Wood Inc ($1.3m), First Presbyterian Church Child Care Center ($1.3m) and Trousdale School Inc ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 78% and program service revenue 22% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $242k. At year end it held assets of $538k against liabilities of $982, net assets of $537k. It reported 14 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.