Berkeley Food Network

Analysis

Berkeley Food Network is a registered charity in United States, based in Berkeley, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2017, 9 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, Berkeley Food Network reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.7m, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $408k to $1.5m (+264%), an average of +38% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 216%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Berkeley Food Network sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 84th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Transgender Advocates Knowledgeable Empowering ($1.5m), Karidat ($1.5m) and North Brooklyn Development Corporation ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $124k (7.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $684k. At year end it held assets of $283k against liabilities of $59k, net assets of $224k. It reported 17 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.