Shelby County Food Pantry

Analysis

Shelby County Food Pantry is a registered charity in United States, based in Shelbina, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2010, 16 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, Shelby County Food Pantry reported income of $482k and spending of $454k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $566k to $482k (-15%), an average of -3.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Shelby County Food Pantry sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Monroe County Senior Citizens and Friends Inc ($482k), Bottoms Up Diaper Drive ($482k) and Wright County Childrens Home ($482k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. At year end it held assets of $547k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $547k.