Giving Plate

Analysis

Giving Plate is a registered charity in United States, based in Bend, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2010, 16 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, Giving Plate reported income of $3.3m and spending of $2.0m, leaving 40% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $3.3m (+168%), an average of +28% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 112%. Over the whole period it spent 59% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Giving Plate sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 91st percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Steps of Strategy ($3.3m), Safe Haven Shelter for Battered Women ($3.3m) and Domestic Violence Resource Center Inc ($3.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $372k. At year end it held assets of $6.5m against liabilities of $654k, net assets of $5.8m. It reported 11 employees.