Columbia Gorge Helping Hands Food Salvage

Analysis

Columbia Gorge Helping Hands Food Salvage is a registered charity in United States, based in Corbett, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2011, 15 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 (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Columbia Gorge Helping Hands Food Salvage reported income of $2.6m and spending of $2.5m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $279k to $2.6m (+817%), an average of +74% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 836%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Columbia Gorge Helping Hands Food Salvage sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Young Mens Christian Association of Bucyrus-Tiffin Inc ($2.6m), Elijahs Promise ($2.6m) and Lift Up of Routt County ($2.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $287k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $287k.