Bluffton Community Soup Kitchen

Analysis

Bluffton Community Soup Kitchen is a registered charity in United States, based in Bluffton, SC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, 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, Bluffton Community Soup Kitchen reported income of $229k and spending of $212k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $123k to $229k (+86%), an average of +23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 54%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Bluffton Community Soup Kitchen sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 62nd percentile within SC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Women on the Rise International Inc ($229k), United Community Center of Michigan ($229k) and Overcomers Refugee Services ($229k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% and program service revenue 1.8% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $14k. At year end it held assets of $128k against liabilities of $466, net assets of $128k. It reported 1 employees.