Garden City Harvest Inc

Analysis

Garden City Harvest Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Missoula, MT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1996, 30 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, Garden City Harvest Inc reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.4m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $1.4m (+17%), an average of +4.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 23%. 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, Garden City Harvest Inc sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 85th percentile within MT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Orcas Senior Center ($1.4m), Guiding Light Foster Care & Adoption ($1.4m) and New Light Child & Family Institute ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 69% and program service revenue 25% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $89k (6.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $759k. At year end it held assets of $3.3m against liabilities of $187k, net assets of $3.1m. It reported 45 employees.