Essential Eats Distributors Inc

Analysis

Essential Eats Distributors Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Missoula, MT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2018, 8 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, Essential Eats Distributors Inc reported income of $240k and spending of $253k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $74k to $240k (+222%), an average of +48% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 287%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Essential Eats Distributors Inc sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 56th percentile within MT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Next Stop Foundation Inc ($240k), Berea Faith Community Outreach Inc ($240k) and New Sun Foundation Corp ($240k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $63k against liabilities of $25k, net assets of $38k.