Second Harvest

Analysis

Second Harvest is a registered charity in United States, based in Pittsburgh, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2019, 7 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, Second Harvest reported income of $929k and spending of $785k, spending 84% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $569k to $929k (+63%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 248%. Over the whole period it spent 54% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Second Harvest sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Youth Connections Foundation ($929k), Tzidkas Avraham Inc ($930k) and Second Impressions ($929k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 73% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $97k (12% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $239k. At year end it held assets of $2.4m against liabilities of $26k, net assets of $2.4m. It reported 12 employees.