School Nutrition Foundation

Analysis

School Nutrition Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Arlington, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2007, 19 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 July 2023, School Nutrition Foundation reported income of $1.1m and spending of $1.0m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2019 to July 2023, income grew from $1.0m to $1.1m (+7.3%), an average of +1.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2022, when income rose by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, School Nutrition Foundation sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 81st percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Irreducible Grace Foundation ($1.1m), H3 Collective ($1.1m) and Sckic Inc ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending July 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% and program service revenue 4.8% of the total. At year end it held assets of $5.1m against liabilities of $643k, net assets of $4.4m.