Shelbyville Community Soup Kitchen

Analysis

Shelbyville Community Soup Kitchen is a registered charity in United States, based in Shelbyville, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Shelbyville Community Soup Kitchen reported income of $220k and spending of $165k, leaving 25% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income fell from $372k to $220k (-41%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 33% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Shelbyville Community Soup Kitchen sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile, and in the 56th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include A Positive Attitude Outlook of Southern California ($220k), Mothers for Mothers Postpartum Justice Project ($220k) and Lync8 Project Corp ($220k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $41k (25% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $1.0m against liabilities of $14, net assets of $1.0m. It reported 2 employees.