Senior Nutrition Program

Analysis

Senior Nutrition Program is a registered charity in United States, based in SN Luis Obisp, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1999, 27 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 June 2023, Senior Nutrition Program reported income of $2.2m and spending of $2.2m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $1.3m to $2.2m (+64%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Senior Nutrition Program 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 87th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Keeping Kids Safe Inc ($2.2m), The American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro Inc ($2.2m) and Hope Faith Ministries Inc ($2.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% and program service revenue 5.2% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.0m. It paid $470 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $664k against liabilities of $460k, net assets of $204k. It reported 45 employees.