DC Food Project

Analysis

DC Food Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, DC Food Project reported income of $137k and spending of $166k, spending 121% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $227k to $137k (-40%), an average of -22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 53% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, DC Food Project sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 45th percentile, and in the 24th percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Goodwill Village West II Inc ($137k), Tomchei Shabbos of Staten Island Inc ($137k) and Baby Bureau ($137k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $350k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $350k.