The Lunch Place

Analysis

The Lunch Place is a registered charity in United States, based in Waynesboro, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2019, 7 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, The Lunch Place reported income of $62k and spending of $54k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $97k to $62k (-36%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 52% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Lunch Place sits at the 21st percentile: it is larger than about 21% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 24th percentile, and in the 23rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pennsylvania Hospice Network ($62k), Friends of Donegal ($62k) and Cops Care for Kids Foundation Inc ($62k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 63% of the total. At year end it held assets of $705k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $705k.