Community Kitchen Pittsburgh

Analysis

Community Kitchen Pittsburgh is a registered charity in United States, based in Pittsburgh, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2013, 13 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 June 2023, Community Kitchen Pittsburgh reported income of $3.5m and spending of $3.5m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2023, income grew from $2.8m to $3.5m (+29%), an average of +8.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Community Kitchen Pittsburgh sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 89th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Inadvance ($3.5m), The Sunday Breakfast Asssociation of Philadelphia ($3.6m) and Raritan Valley Y M C a ($3.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 33% and program service revenue 64% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $109k (3.1% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $803k. At year end it held assets of $3.8m against liabilities of $234k, net assets of $3.6m. It reported 108 employees.